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, and what can be learned from their crushing defeat. Given the disparity between the political consensus of parties backing Yes-Yes, and the eventual results, McWilliams views the vote through the lens of “insiders versus outsiders”; “Those on the inside, those with access to power and influence, aren’t listening, forcing those on the outside, who feel locked out of the system, to shout louder,” he writes.
is Hugh Linehan, who says they are hard to read into with any certainty, given the wide array of people who voted the amendments down – for very different reasons. “The result is a sort of political Rorschach test on to which anyone can project their own meaning. For some, the care amendment fell because it was insufficiently progressive. For others the opposite is true. Many voters were clearly persuaded by the argument that the wording of the text was dangerously ambiguous.
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