If the referendum are not held on hackernews or reddit and the mainstream politicians are given a time to defend their positions, I think the results won't be much different than what people voted so far.
The pirate party(~parties all over the EU) are bunch of idealists who so far failed to gain any significant traction.
People love the idea that the pure and freedom loving societies are held hostage by fascist elites but that's probably the case only if a very few countries, definitely not EU, US or even Russia or Turkey. People love whatever their position is, ban this mandate that is all they want(it's just that different people want different things to banned or mandated). Notice how people tirelessly are wedging cultural wars over who should f*ck who, be called what, get dressed what, eat what.
We have whatever we have because that's whatever the people want. It slowly changes over time as new people are born and the older ones die off.
So you never heard of terms like Democratic Deficit, you have never read any serious research on the subject, you have not heard that USA was declared a flawed democracy. You personal opinion trumps whatever Phds and proffesors have come up with and published as peer reviewed research?
> I think the results won't be much different than what people voted so far.
The pirate party(~parties all over the EU) are bunch of idealists who so far failed to gain any significant traction.
This is a total Non-Sequitour - the facts/arguments you are providing do not support the assertions/opinions you are putting forward.
The Green Party in United Kingdom has almost no representation. However polling has shown that if you take any green party policy, it has like 70% support across the electorate. Why do people not vote for green party? That's up for debate, maybe people are stuck in the old Labour/Tory mindset, maybe it's the First past the Post System, maybe they debate poorly, there could be a million reasons.
Do you really think this is about the Pirate Party? If we had a referendum on this issue tomorrow, do you really think that the position held by mainsteam politians wouldn't loose by a landslide?