The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this [anti-democratic] logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.

There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.

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Seemingly endless negotiations finally led to the division of Czechoslovakia. It had one great advantage: it proceeded calmly, without violence, major conflict…

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.