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‘How dare you!’: Florida council meeting erupts over renaming road for Charlie Kirk
(www.independent.co.uk)
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That's exactly how representative democracy works: people might be against but decision is made by "elected officials" who couldn't care less about some "common folk" opinion.
At least at the local level, the only reason it shakes out that way is because the common folk haven't really been paying all that much attention to what the elected officials are doing, as long as they had an R after their names. At the national level there is additional fuckery, but these are exactly the people they voted for, you can't exactly blame that on the system. It's a problem of education and of apathy.
I feel like, after all the long decades of fuckery, this might be the year that they wake up about it because it is finally impacting them directly in a fashion that can't be explained away. Maybe not but I definitely feel like that is possible.
Sadly, I think we all underestimated just how many people there are in this country that actually desperately want the fuckery. They think it helps them. They think they're "winning". I keep thinking they'll realize, at some point, that it does the opposite. It hasn't happened yet.
Take a look at those Republican town hall videos though. They definitely have realized, at least some of them. I think it's mostly just a question of whether it will translate into anything, or whether they'll just settle back down and get back in their place.