The word "radical" having been seriously devalued in political discourse these days -- likewise "extreme," "drastic" and "cuckoo" -- let's just say that the Kilgore Referendum-for-everything mind-set leaps, bounds and hops away from Virginia's traditional approach to representative government.
I certainly couldn't have said it better myself, and the article actually gets even better at the end. Gordon C. Morse, you're a genius!