Since the British people obviously made the wrong decision when for once asked about their opinion, holding referendums might in the future turn out to be a slippery slope for politicians of all democratic nations to tread. Notwithstanding that referendums may constitutionally be regarded as of consultative rather than of legislative character, it is possible that national, democratically elected governments, will begin to avoid consulting its constituencies in regard to specific issues of major importance to the nation's future. In other words: politicians across democratic Europe will soon begin sawing at the very branch they're perched on.
Suggestions regarding how to curtail the growing demand among the citizens of Europe to be able to hold elected politicians responsible for their actions, and non-actions, have been proposed by press, media and politicians alike. Above all, there is a growing conviction that every single democratic election that doesn't favour the consensus of the establishment - hitherto a self-appointed, auto-procreating elite which over time has come to resemble some communist nomenclature, shrouded in self-righteousness and full of zeal in forcing the people to listen and learn to repeat, parrot-like, all the right opinions - should be ruled out as something anti-democratic and illegal.
There is a near total agreement within the establishment to label every political attempt to give the citizens of Europe a chance to decide for themselves what political course they might prefer or dislike as "populism". Although the word seems to thrive in the semantic vicinity of perfectly innocuous terms such as "popular", "pop-culture", "population", yes, even in association with the political pet phrase "ordinary people", it has been affiliated with a very strong derogatory connotation, reducing anyone who would even lend an ear to a "populist" speaker to a simple, unwitting victim of demagoguery of the vilest kind imaginable.
The common man, otherwise hailed as the everyday hero, has thereby suddenly become a serious threat to society. All efforts are from now on deployed to render him and his elected representatives as politically inefficient as possible, if necessary by refusing to even let them participate in the parliamentary process, or by the political establishment forming uncouth coalitions in between their normally rivaling factions in the sole aim of keeping together in the face of what is perceived, not only as the common man, but more specifically as the common enemy.
Referendums might turn out to be treacherous indeed. Still today it isn't easy to swallow that Hitler not only came to power by democratic elections, but that he also held four different referendums on separate occasions in order to clearly and unequivocally confirm the German people's willingness to invest him with extra-ordinary executive powers. Thus, if referendums keep going wrong for our political elite, they might have to avoid them altogether, thereby showing the electorate that it has no other way to influence politics than through regular parliamentary elections. But this too is very double-edged. Because not only have people begun to go astray in referendums. They also promote the wrong political parties in parliaments across Europe.
This is such a serious threat to the establishment that as the day comes when they can no longer stick together like thieves in the final elections and would have to hand over power to a so-called populist party, attempts will surely be made to abolish the old democratic system altogether in favour of a new system of "reformed", "responsible", "sustainable" democracy, where individuals can be formally punished for speaking their minds in the wrong way.
Actually, when it comes to the public discussion of the so-called Holocaust, the punishments of citizens with the wrong opinions have long since been implemented in the European judicial system. Nobody, except a marginalised gang of social nutballs, seems to find anything strange in the fact that individuals all over Europe still go to jail for having questioned technical and historical details in the official narrative of the Holocaust. If we could only bring the accusations of hate speech to the same frantic pitch, and link it to the same kinds of punishments, we might still be able to save our Europe.
Thus spake the Juncker.
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