Sure describes our ballot iniative process

[barretcreek]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/james-madison-mob-rule/568351/

About 80/85% of our ballot initiatives are partisan crap, and we get stuck with them.

[Vern Humphrey]

Here in Arkansas we regularly have ballot initiatives "to permit the XYZ company to establish a casino in ABC county" -- basically selling the county to the company.

[dogtag]

Here in California the people vote Yes and a Judge says No

[blackhawknj]

The Populists and Progressives pushed the I&R process in the 1890s to break the back of the special interests and big money lobbies who found having governors and legislators on their payroll was a good investment. Do you think the Legislature and Governor of California would have passed Proposition 13 on their own ?