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Should you get a vote if you don’t understand politics? Academics offer democracy rethink
Democracy has always been a messy form of government and is often unpredictable.
- RN By Antony Funnell for Future Tense
- ABC
Both qualities can be a strength, but as we know from recent international experience, they can also be a liability.
The election of Donald Trump, for instance, produced a result at odds with the wishes of the majority of voters.
Elsewhere in the world, in democracies like Turkey, Hungary, Poland and the…