Popular referenda would divert attention from governance toward identity issues.
Evidence
Second, this would cause a vast diversion of political attention and resources in a country that is already too diverted from governance toward what one might call identity-issues. Would the debate on health-care reform, for example, really be enriched by a national referenda to enshrine (or forbid) the single payer? For this is just the sort of amendment-a statute by any other name-that occurs in states that have such mech- — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 265
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- XREF: connects to: Second, this would cause a vast diversion of political attention and resources in a country that is already too diverted from governance toward what one might call identity-issues.; Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience.