This means that the proposal has once again been blocked. Wouldn’t have expected that from our government TBH. Nice one!

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    @hector the masses are too easily driven to bad decisions out of fear.

    Just consider the power of junk like the Sun, Bild and other rage-fear-and-misinformation “news” outlets.

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      Idk with a little organization we could easily drive that fear towards our own ends, protecting us from government and organized groups didn’t even more of our info.

      Here in the United States we have achieved a number of things through referendums that our politicians would never do.

      Like legalizing marijuana, my state of Michigan we ended gerrymandering by giving the drawing of legislative districts to an independent body as Arizona did before.

      We have enshrined voting rights into the state constitution. Raised the minimum wage, although the lawmakers did rat fuck that through a quirk of our system that allows them to vote it in after it gets approved for the ballot but they cut the cost of living adjustment out of it.

      A loophole we are trying to close but that effort got rat fucked as well so far.

      We are working on ranked Choice voting right now.