Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money

Re:Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money by wsc981 on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:23AM (#10806054)

  In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest 
  and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates 
  the topic independently, but their votes are lost in the noise. I would 
  not trust decisions, that require specific knowledge and that can't be 
  explained in layman terms, to the masses.

Could you provide some examples?

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Personally I don't trust politicians as much anymore these days to make choices in the benefit of the people. Most often the politicians' votes seem more aligned with business interests compared to the people interests, especially in large powerful constructs like the EU. I've also seen politicians make plenty bad choices in my country.

My opinion is that we should get more referenda in the future. The innovation of internet makes it possible to do this very cheap.

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Re:Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money by kbart on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @07:26AM (#10806384)

I agree that politicians make some terrible and downright malicious decisions (namely TTIP) and citizens should have more power (stop NSA, anyone?), but some decisions are best left to the specialists. Utopian government should be some kind of a mix between democracy and technocracy imho. An anecdote to answer your question: in Lithuania (where I live), few elections ago, the most vote received a party consisting of the local TV and pop stars that, no need to say, had absolutely no clue about politics. Of course, they didn't last long and only caused few months of turmoil.

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