[Antoninus]

Good tactics. Just keep having more referenda until you get the answer you want.

Then, once you get that answer, all further referenda are illegal. That's how "democracy" works when the government is run by totalitarians.

[sparklite2]

Their ratchet effect seems to go only one way.

[Stravinsky]

Yep.

Same goes for court cases, laws, etc.

The Left always fights and fights, then once it wins, “No more fighting allowed. History has spoken!”