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Foucaulf
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« on: November 05, 2014, 09:03:53 PM »

Maybe this is worth discussing, but think about the optics of it all. Proposing more referenda sounds even more craven than that ridiculous "cancel the midterms" op-ed in the NYT this Monday.

More seriously, having more referenda makes it even harder to eliminate a policy with negative consequences. A newly elected legislature, the ideal of which I think should be supreme, is bound from striking down the law because they'll be opposing "the voice of the people," whatever that means.

And let's think about the real problem: voters know Republican candidates have opposed policies they would like to see, but have faith in Republican elected officials not going against popular sentiment or just flat out don't know. They're willing to put more faith in folksy R congresspeople than Democrats, embodied as they are as lawyers and liberals. If we stop running around like headless chicken we can fix the optics.
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