Quote Originally Posted by Prussian Iron View Post
the problem with swiss direct democracy is that every idiot, every anti-muslim, gets an equal vote.


for direct democracy to work, there needs to be some sort of intelligence restriction. like your I.Q. has to be at least 105. that way only people who know what they are doing have an effect on the country.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. You can't say that the people who voted for this did so because they disliked Islam. Nor can you even say the people who did vote against it because they dislike Islam are stupid. They may be quite smart (in IQ terms, not about reasons for voting).

It is a huge fallacy to think that most of the 'smarter' people agree with you. And hugely discriminatory to prevent people from voting because they fall below some arbitrary level in a shoddy test.

CR