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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by nitrogen on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:48PM (#16036705)
They think that improvements should be made, but when, say, the time comes to vote they won't bother taking 10 minutes to see where their representatives stand on this issue and vote accordingly.

IMO this is backward. Representatives should choose their issues by the voice of the people, or people should vote on issues and the appropriate candidate suggested automatically.

We will always get suboptimal results when people are forced to commingle their opinions on everything from science to security into a single binary choice.

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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by Chathamization on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:17PM (#16036891)
In places that allow ballot initiatives you can target specific issues. That's how marijuana legalization has been happening. There are places where majority of the people support it, but they vote in politicians who don't bother to legalize it, so activists take the issue directly to the voters.

Even still, though, it's a small number of people who bother collecting the signatures and informing people about the initiative. The vast majority of people are extremely disengaged and won't bother working on changing things.

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