Swiss referendum

A Comment on this web site about the Swiss referendum has this quote from Goebbels. I have often railed against "democracy" since it sometimes seems to pander to our worst side. (campaigns that seek to minimise hits to the hip pocket nerve as well as campaigning to keep our borders secure against the hordes.)

While I am fiercely protective of our system of democracy, I accept that it is not a perfect system at all.

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1260035333

By the way, the Swiss referendum should give pause to those who have been tempted to think that the system of referendums is preferable to the Parliamentary system. A referendum opens the gates to the vilest demagogues, the pupils of Joseph Goebbels, who once wrote: "We must appeal again to the most primitive instincts of the masses."