Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by onetimeusename on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:48PM
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that's the dark side of democracy really. The city officials and the judges are elected (in California) by a majority of the people and so, by extension, a majority of people oppose the judgement. This probably falls under tyranny of the majority and it's an ongoing problem. This is at least my opinion.
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Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by epistasis on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:30AM
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A vanishingly small number of people are informed on local issues enough to elect people that represent their views. And in California at least, local politics is completely toxic and has very nasty people that have been allowed to bully, yell, and spread falsehoods about anybody new to politics.
It kind of reminds me of a much more innocuous version of the French Revolution when it was going off the rails, and the wrong political opinion meant death. Almost nobody voted in elections, because keeping your head down was the best way to keep it attached to your body.
Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by Retric on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:35PM
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It’s city officials vs state law not just judges. An ongoing question is which powers should be local vs state level.
It’s reasonable to favor local governments on local issues, but this stuff is impacting outside their area so it’s no longer a local issue.