Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

Re:Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis by visarga on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:11AM (#12069813)

Direct voting, like the UK referendum, can lead to impossible situations. People vote for what they wished was the reality, and many times it's just not possible.

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Re:Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis by tomp on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:46AM (#12070369)

I think it's the exact opposite. Direct democracy would lead to people voting for what they want much more granularly, whereas the Brexit vote was once-in-a-generation opportunity that conflated many many different issues (immigration, "ever closer union", single market, London vs. the rest of England, England vs. Scotland, economic inequality, ...). I people were given a chance to vote for each of these issues separately, I would expect much saner (and less contradictory) outcomes...

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Re:Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis by guard-of-terra on Monday July 11, 2016 @06:53AM (#12070176)

You can learn to vote reasonably only if you do it.

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