Comment by Cardinal7167
3 years ago
It will never get fined because it’s how the people who legislate fines are making (and keeping) their money and control.
3 years ago
It will never get fined because it’s how the people who legislate fines are making (and keeping) their money and control.
That's not how democracy works. Apathy is toxic. Please stop hurting us.
The way "representative democracy" (in quotes because both words are a lie) works at scale of any large country is as follows: you elect people based on simplistic promises that they make, and if they win and you're lucky, they kinda sorta do something that's vaguely like half of what they promised. Your only recourse is waiting for N years to vote for someone else who will almost certainly do the same thing.
Not only is this all by design, but in many countries, the "free mandate" - i.e. the notion that the politician can say A before the election and then do ~A after - is even legally codified. In theory, this is supposed to allow the elected representatives to apply their own judgment based on nuances of the moment instead of pandering to the mob. In practice, it means that your representative is free to pander to people other than those they "represent" while still claiming a public mandate based on the votes received.
Not only this, but most people don't actually like the vague promises of the candidate they voted for.
They're just praying that one will be moderately less terrible than the alternative.
There's never an option to say, "No, none of these power-hungry psychos should get to make this set of decisions on my behalf."
This is a bad take. Representative democracy works and we have plenty of examples of that happening even within our lifetimes. Your negative outlook is a choice and it’s wrong. Do better.
We elect representatives at every level of government. In a country of 335,000,000 people a slow moving central government is a feature. If you really want to make a difference pay attention to your city council.
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Cynicism is not apathy. If they were apathetic, they would have no reason to comment.
EU DPA's may have something to say about this if EU data subjects data was leaked.