• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Do you really think that so many people would suddenly care so badly about gender and immigration policy if they weren’t being induced with specific intention?

    Just devil’s advocacy. I think you are right that direct democracy doesn’t protect us from moral panics, or even from people inducing moral panics for personal gain.