<div dir="ltr">Sorry for not finishing my thought before upping this but what I'm getting at is that it will be chaotic but over the long run it will sort itself out because it HAS to.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Paul Tidwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmtidwell@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmtidwell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>So my Previous post about this was just a link to it but I'm gonna share my thoughts about that link now: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-a-land-of-vikings-braces-for-a-pirate-party-takeover/2016/10/23/f1bfe992-9540-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/world/europe/iceland-a-<wbr>land-of-vikings-braces-for-a-<wbr>pirate-party-takeover/2016/10/<wbr>23/f1bfe992-9540-11e6-9cae-<wbr>2a3574e296a6_story.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>OK so they say that they think Iceland right, under the pirates has overly vaguely defined proposals and it will cause problems in their government and economy if they are elected, correct?</div><div><br></div><div>That's the principle objection that this person has especially with a move towards direct democracy among people who are not necessarily well educated about how to write laws and for instance how laws can have the spirit of those laws violated and how people can circumvent and the tactical maneuvering and everything.</div><div><br></div><div>My frustration with this core line of logic about where Icelands economy is heading if they win is that it's their economy.</div><div><br></div><div>I mean... How do I put this... It incentivizes the population to learn. </div><div><br></div><div>What I'm getting at is ordinary citizens will get better at drafting law if they go with their disposition towards direct democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>They will HAVE to, their economic livelihood will depend on it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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