Comment by noosphr
4 days ago
Money is a poor substitute for people who care.
The only people who think otherwise are terminally online losers who have never organized anything larger than a birthday party.
4 days ago
Money is a poor substitute for people who care.
The only people who think otherwise are terminally online losers who have never organized anything larger than a birthday party.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/money-power-...
seems like a lot more people believe that than the population you are describing
This changes substantially when you ask people about their _own_ representatives:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/how-american...
Are you talking from experience? What legislation have you organised?
I got new bike lanes installed around the neogboirhood after I wrote to the local city representative about it, then went to a city where I did a PowerPoint presentation of all the places that you could get killed if the driver wasn't paying attention.
It took a month from first letter to new bikelanes.
This sounds like exactly the gumption we need to finally get the federal government to represent the common man.
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The speed of turn-around sounds impossible. That you are asking for bike lanes - which is already part of most local agendas - is more believable. I daresay if someone asked for the lanes to be removed, they would not get any traction.
> terminally online losers
Maybe in your country but not in the hellhole that is the US.
An excuse to do nothing.
The local dog catcher had more impact on your daily life than the president.
I'll join your revolution! Let's go bud!!!!