Any scrutiny of the misleading Facebook ads that presumably swayed voters was quickly shut down, by the argument that it was somehow patronising to suggest that voters had been led astray.
You’re referring to these ads? The scrutiny was shut down because these ads aren’t misleading. The UK did, and continued to, send the EU £350 million a week.
But that’s just you and me disagreeing. How do we determine the truth? Are the ads actually misleading and I’m wrong? Who says what’s correct and what’s incorrect?
I agree very much with the instrumentalist view of democracy. However, your suggestions for independent overseers is generically naive. The corruption in the government most clearly comes from the un-elected, ostensibly independent government employees who remain throughout multiple changes of the elected leaders. The point is that any supposedly independent group is either A) not going to have much skin in the game and won’t care; or B) going to be controlled by shady interest groups regardless of their stated independence.
You said that, “a diverse panel of the world’s top economists unanimously agreed that the gold standard is a bad idea.” Ok, be that as it may, Ludwig Mises, one of the most famous economists in history was in favor of the gold standard, as well as many other famous economists including multiple federal reserve chairmen. Does that make your comment wrong? No, but these sorts of decisions matter and there’s no way to pick an impartial arbiter so just letting everybody have a say is the next best thing.
You’re referring to these ads? The scrutiny was shut down because these ads aren’t misleading. The UK did, and continued to, send the EU £350 million a week.
But that’s just you and me disagreeing. How do we determine the truth? Are the ads actually misleading and I’m wrong? Who says what’s correct and what’s incorrect?
I agree very much with the instrumentalist view of democracy. However, your suggestions for independent overseers is generically naive. The corruption in the government most clearly comes from the un-elected, ostensibly independent government employees who remain throughout multiple changes of the elected leaders. The point is that any supposedly independent group is either A) not going to have much skin in the game and won’t care; or B) going to be controlled by shady interest groups regardless of their stated independence.
You said that, “a diverse panel of the world’s top economists unanimously agreed that the gold standard is a bad idea.” Ok, be that as it may, Ludwig Mises, one of the most famous economists in history was in favor of the gold standard, as well as many other famous economists including multiple federal reserve chairmen. Does that make your comment wrong? No, but these sorts of decisions matter and there’s no way to pick an impartial arbiter so just letting everybody have a say is the next best thing.