great initiative.

800 000 signatures to get a plebiscite, in Hessen, they say. Legally it's around 350 000, which means they're overcalculating the needed margin by at least a factor of two, no doubt to combat attempts to throw out signatures.

Also, the law states that it has to be "accepted" (💀) before going to a vote, that matters of state income and budge cannot be decided by the people, and that until now, exactly 0 plebiscites have been successful in Hessen.

The liberal democratic state is built to simulate democracy while in fact be unchangeable in anything that matters.

Wow!!! What are these compulsory fees? Citizens have to pay for their own propagandising? tbf it happens by stealth in most countries. One the first cheques Jacinda Ardern wrote when she gained power was to the media. She even bragged about it like she'd just done something amazing and yet people still barely bat and eyelid.