But why would the left hate referendums? Doesn’t it claim to represent “the people”?
Isn’t “power to the people” one of the most popular sayings of the left? Isn’t the American left trying to abolish the Electoral College precisely because it isn’t directly representative of “the people’s” will?
First, the left cares about “the people” as much as the Soviet Communist Party cared about the workers.
For the left, real people are either political fodder or, when they support the left, useful idiots.
The left loves power, not people.
Repeat: The left loves power, not people.
If that is not understood, the left is not understood.
Since its beginning, the major, if not only interest the left has had in people is to control them.
That is the reason for the left’s fear and loathing of referendums.
Every referendum gives people who are not yet controlled by the left the exceedingly rare opportunity to exercise power.
Brexit represents a ray of optimism. But in the long run, even referendums may not matter.
As long as the left controls education and the news and entertainment media, brainwashed populations will vote to destroy their nations and Western civilization in general, as is already happening in the institution most controlled by the left: the university.
The referendum is the last remaining tool for the non-elites and the non-leftists to express themselves.
Democracy, except when the rival wins.
>he thinks only leftists hate Brexit
>he thinks only rightists are against globalism
>>79057266
We already know that liberals are commies in denial.
>>79057266
They really just don't care. Their attitude is "By any means necessary"
Any means to push through their ill concieved worldview whether it is based on a smelly bearded German named Marx and his conspiracy theories, or a hairy man hating feminist or some revanchist mexican group that would normally be considered right wing but sides with the left because muh diversity. I would say that much of the basic lefitists are just a bunch of edgelords, who are pissed at society and put their belief into some stupid ideology because they have no religion to put it into and hate the nation so no nationality to put that energy into, or they hate daddy.
>>79057266
The Left love referendums just as long as they get the result they want no matter how many referendums that takes.
>>79057416
It's not left vs right, it's the globalists vs the nationalists
>>79057266
sometimes the people dont know whats good for them
baka
britain needs more immigrants
>>79058395
>baka
wtf is this shit
>>79058003
That is what the people of California did when they voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The left loathed the proposal, characterizing it as “hate.”
And after it was passed the left did what it always does when it can: used judges to overturn the popular will.
The British nation did last week what the citizens of California had done.
They exercised their will independently of the left. Those British whose minds were not yet influenced by the left said that they would rather have Britain stay British and be self-governing than become an identity-free European country governed by Brussels.
Thus, the left is now apoplectic.
No one should be able to defy the left and get away with it.
Just as almost everyone of any prominence who supported California’s Proposition 8 was ultimately punished (like the CEO of Mozilla Firefox, who despite his universally acknowledged fair treatment of gays was targeted with furious attacks solely for supporting the notion that marriage should have remain defined as it had always been, a union between the two sexes).
>>79057266
not everyone on the left hates referendums
it was pretty awesome actually, the leader of our ultra-left party (who worked for the soviet puppet regime pre-1990) admitted that he would back proposals for nationwide referendum possibilities just for the sake of it. When asked if he knew what the general opinion on immigration was, he said he`d give it a chance anyways because the principle would be what matters and he would be willing to work with the right-wing-parties for it. Meanwhile the government representatives were shouting how lucky we are not to have plebiscites or vote our president directly.
it was really strange seeing so-called democrats getting a lesson in their field by someone who held an office in an authoritarian, quasi-fascist police state
