[SoothingDave]

Didn't California, though cash-strapped, pass a referendum that mandates spending billions of dollars to use parts of dead babies to try to get Christopher Reeve to walk again?

Didn't California pass a referendum requiring a set percentage of the budget go to education, thereby giving the teachers union a direct line to the taxpayers' wallets without any interference or accountability to the legislators?

Are these examples of the wisdom of the masses and how reasoned debate can shine through the referendum process?

[BikerNYC]

Are these examples of the wisdom of the masses and how reasoned debate can shine through the referendum process?

Just because one disagrees with the will of the majority does not make the majority's will illegitimate.