Ballot initiatives to change state constitutions are terrible ideas. The wording of the question always makes a huge difference in how people vote.

@grantsmithofficial

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Direct democracy is terrible ? Ballot initiatives have united Arkansans for decades. That’s how we got minimum wage increases, medical marijuana etc.

@samurguy9906

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@@grantsmithofficial there’s a reason we’re a republican democracy and not a direct one. Most people barely have the time to stay informed about a handful of candidates every few years, much less individual issues. This is besides the point, but minimum wage increases aren’t always a good idea either. There’s always jobs eliminated by prohibiting work below a certain wage (otherwise we’d just increase the minimum to a million an hour). Not to mention inflationary concerns-pushing up the price of labor pushes up the price of everything else after a bit, eating up much of the extra pay for those that benefit. Almost all government policies are about trade offs. And that trade off is rarely reflected in a one sentence summary on a ballot.

@samurguy9906

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@@grantsmithofficial looking at your ballot initiative I think there’s a case to be made that it would be difficult to enforce more government transparency without direct democracy, but that would be an exception, not the rule. Direct democracy has a lot of problems.