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	by XorNot 2 days ago
	Its wildly popular to the tune of 70% support amongst the general population? The HN bubble needs to realize that it's not that people don't care, it's that they really want this and also when it didn't work started complaining they wanted even more.

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Is that stat from the consultation in which opposing it wasn't even an option?

Agreed, surely politicians are good at aligning to what's popular.

A certain type of people thrived in 1970's East Germany too, saying to themselves that it was for the greater good.

source?