We don't. The right-wing know that ultimately this methodology is poor for provision of necessary services, they can still take money from the tax-payer using it and that is their goal.
Do more direct democracies have this problem?
There are several things in the UK that have been clear attacks on our democracy that it feels could have been avoided if it were possible to force a national vote on them. Proroging parliament. Neutering parliamentary standards. Tory party members solely being allowed to choose succession for multiple PMs. And so on ...
Allowing water companies to pay bonuses and dividends whilst putting up rates and pumping effluent into our rivers at massively increased rates ... a national vote would allow an opposition party to put a solution to stop that to the populous and it could be fixed, somewhat.
Although, with the levels of deceit and manipulation, just flat out immorality, the Tories have practiced in recent years maybe they could get the public to vote for more profits for shareholders and more shit pumped into the rivers. I despair.
Do more direct democracies have this problem?
There are several things in the UK that have been clear attacks on our democracy that it feels could have been avoided if it were possible to force a national vote on them. Proroging parliament. Neutering parliamentary standards. Tory party members solely being allowed to choose succession for multiple PMs. And so on ...
Allowing water companies to pay bonuses and dividends whilst putting up rates and pumping effluent into our rivers at massively increased rates ... a national vote would allow an opposition party to put a solution to stop that to the populous and it could be fixed, somewhat.
Although, with the levels of deceit and manipulation, just flat out immorality, the Tories have practiced in recent years maybe they could get the public to vote for more profits for shareholders and more shit pumped into the rivers. I despair.