Referendums Are Bad

Referendums Are Bad
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There are many takeaways from Great Britain's decision to leave the European Union, but one of the simplest is that referendums are bad and, ironically, anti-democratic. Referendums are, by definition, simple yes-or-no answers to problems that are enormously complicated, or that have enormously complicated ramifications that voters may not entirely understand. 

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