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by cdkmoose 897 days ago
Perhaps it's more apathy. Outside of hot-button issues, it feels like many people don't care to pay attention to their local government
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The same way you don’t care about plumbers and their issues, you already have your own, a job ( or two ), family and need to rest.

On top of that people ( rightfully) feel they have no power to change anything on their own without requiring a multi-year almost full time job pressuring and bringing awareness to the public, which is part of being a politician, which is exactly what they don’t have the time for and the will to deal with those type of people, which are being paid for and you don’t.

I suspect people in the US have amore positive feeling about their plumber than the state of government/politics in the country