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> because politicians how can politicians be directly to blame for everything bad. Surely majority people are electing this person to do what he/she/they are d

• Supermancho 4y ago
  > how can politicians be directly to blame for everything bad I didn't say this, ofc. I think you meant to say, how can they be to blame for the implementation. I think "the why" is obvious in that context. They craft the legislation and vote on it. > Surely majority people are electing this person to do what he/she/they are doing. Surely not. Elections are not physical handcuffs, where everything that an elected official is elected for is performed or all expectations are met. Voters largely have to make compromises based on all kinds of circumstantial conditions, like the range of candidates and their records and their sentiments on related issues. You probably know all this, but the phrasing makes me think you don't understand the way democracy works in a practical sense. Rent control is a niche issue for most people. The result of a rent-control policy is usually nothing a voter can directly notice or measure over a relatively long time, say multiple election cycles. That's why most analyses of rent control are sampled over a years and large populations.