Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car

• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do people not vote them out?

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  • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re backed by billionaires and landlords

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If billionaires always could win unions wouldn’t exist.

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      • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sadly not every fight has a union available

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well they’re slowly fading away

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Quick, without googling, tell me your state level representative, and give me a summary of their votes on key issues.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Exactly. We can only deal with so many issues in a 24 hour period. With trump, there’s 47 new issues every day. Fraud overload. No way to respond to all the trash. We need the boondocks saints to just get rid of the bulk of the garbage and let’s see how the surviving trash changes almost overnight.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean, the point I was trying to make is that if you aren’t actively engaged in politics, you won’t know any of those things. Heck, I’m pretty engaged in my local news, taking maybe 15-30 minutes a day to read about local and state issues, and off the top of my head, I couldn’t tell you who my state level rep is, or what they’ve voted for recently. That’s why people don’t vote then out, there is an apathetic disconnect between the politicians vote, and the shitty policies that they support. Hence why people keep actively voting for politicians who undermine and harm them, the people voting can’t be bothered to connect their vote to the policies that are enacted.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Most people don’t pay much or any attention to local politics which makes advertising and incumbency very powerful. Most people literally just vote for the name they recognize from TV or mailers.

    It would take a large increase in political consciousness to fix this.

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