I guess what he means is that more substantive issues work the same way as the boat naming thing -- they ask for your vote but then if they don't like the result they'll toss it.
Good point. I'll be controveraial and point out that there are parallels to Prop 8 in California here. And the immigration legislation in Arizona that was overturned.
Tell me that doesn't feed into the Trump candidacy.
Well, IMO the biggest thing is the economy -- people feel like they were sold a bill of goods with the experts coming in and telling them that free trade would be great and make them more prosperous and now they live in towns that are shadows of their past selves and suffer under- and unemployment.
Well, that's true, but it'd be less of a hot-button issue if so many factories weren't shuttered.
Anyway, your point about judicial review is well taken -- whether you're the type of person to get riled up about Prop 8 or about Citizens United it's basically anti-democratic.
It's not the poll, it is the reaction to the poll. It's the outright insult to the people who participated it and the attitude on the part of management it betrays.
Tell me that doesn't feed into the Trump candidacy.