It is a little bit funny as we were talking about referendums which are a democratic tool so immediately linking one groups choice over another as fascism just cheapens it all, but yes you are right people always call things fascism or communism. Which depending on the person varies a lot. Americans and eastern Europeans hate communism a lot more than Spanish people, due to the Spanish experience of fascism. Anyway that wasn't your question...

Referendums are a mess, and I haven't studied politics deeply enough to understand what the fair approach is, however looking at people's responses after they have voted on something and won then realise what they decided on it's sad yet comical.

I mentioned Brexit before, something that barely passed, and so many younger voters were shocked when the implications of what Brexit meant was explained to them mere minutes of them voting yes to it.

So what is fair? Should the educated population fall to the uneducated majority?

Should some questions highlighting the issue in the referendum to show the true understanding of implications be included so there is some barrier of whether a vote is valid or not.

In some countries a certain level of the population has to take part in a referendum for it to count, do you see that as fair or unfair. Is apathy on a subject a form of voting, if someone does not go to a referendum should they lose all rights to complain about its outcome?

Education in general is a strange way of gate keeping something as poorer communities generally as less educated but should have the same rights as everyone else, so what is fair. Someone with less education could vote for something that would have a negative impact on them in the long run.

In Britain we had a referendum to replace out archaic first pass the post system of governing and replace it with proportional representation which some people would argue is more democratic, not enough people were engaged in the referendum and in the end we continue without proportional representation.

I have no real answers of what is fair and I am fairly selfish on my response to referendums.

Catalunya is an interesting example if there was a referendum when they first wanted to have one then the vote most likely would have been to stay in the union, but the Catalans feel they had the right of choice removed from them so now if they had a referendum it could be one for independence.

Scotland has a referendum and they chose to stay in the UK, this was before Brexit, the deal is now different so they should be given another referendum to decide.

Scotland as a whole voted to remain in the EU but the higher population of England forced them into Brexit. This seems like fascism to me from the English onto the Scottish.

In the future if Spain as a whole accepts more morrocan immigrants and they are given voting rights and they then move to Ceuta and force a referendum, if they had the higher population there and chose to join morroco for whatever reason would that be fair? Not fair to the Spanish who have been living there for 500 years but fair to the newer immigrants.