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What about residents? Olympic bids for example have been way less popular with the residents then with the officials, recently.

• jimbobimbo 8y ago
  Local officials are not coming out of thin air - local residents are the ones who are electing local officials.
  • 1ris 8y ago
    You are moving gloal posts. Residents have more legitimacy than officials. And often differen views, cf. Olympic applications.
    • jimbobimbo 8y ago
      I'm not sure how did you reach this conclusion. My position is: locality needs to be in charge of these decisions. From my perspective, the easiest way to that is to treat local officials as a proxy to local residents. Now, you can argue that "some decisions" must be subject to a popular vote of local residents, but this is not the argument that I was engaging with - it's more of an implementation detail of "locality needs to be in charge of these decisions" principle.