User blog comment:Zephyrus Mapping/Propably the end of me here./@comment-26181597-20150114210222/@comment-6812733-20150114213241

Olimario, that actually has been done in Europe (and I think in North America too). There are citizens' initiatives in some countries (atleast in Finland) which can be sent to the government to add/improve/remove laws or to decide on financing of things like schools, deporting dangerous criminals etc. and they usually need atleast 50 000 signatures to pass. And in Finland, the current government has passed only one initiative, which was the same-sex marriage proposal. And if I remember correctly, there have been more than 200 initiatives. The governments of today are already ignoring the majority, why are you so surprised that it would happen here too?