Why nothing irks a Leftie like a referendum
by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest:
Direct democracy to a progressive is as embarrassing, messy, and torturous as a colonoscopy to a chronic sufferer of haemorrhoids.
Jon Snow, Channel 4 presenter, conspicuous for his acquired taste in loud ties, bright cotton socks and limousine socialism, tweeted his distaste of direct democracy this week.
‘I am a journalist and I live in a representative democracy. Referenda are a distortion of our democracy. Given what Hitler achieved through referenda, I’m surprised that more people are not aware. If a General Election elects a Government on a “leave ticket” I would abide by it,’ he moaned.
When rational debate fails, always recycle the reductio ad Hitlerum argument. It works like a mule’s kick in a man’s groin. ‘Hitler was against toilet paper, X is against toilet paper, therefore X is a Nazi,’ runs the unyielding logic of the argument. Except, of course, when you point out that Hitler was a National Socialist, so socialism is evil!
James Macintyre of Christian Today, a Left-wing website that doubles up as Justin Welby’s ventriloquist’s dummy, sprays the Hitler argument like a World War II flame-thrower while attacking referenda as ‘lethally dangerous’.
‘For referendums, the tool of dictators including Hitler, are lethally divisive, and do not bring any kind of closure on controversial issues [such as Brexit],’ writes this re-moaner, squirming under the colonoscope. Macintyre is jittery about Ireland’s abortion referendum. For him, referenda are devilish creatures like Dementors in Harry Potter novels, as they suck the job of politicians and leave them with nothing to do.
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