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If you can mobilize enough people to make a stink, councils will give you whatever it takes to make you go away. Even if politicians were entirely pure and goo
by specialist 3y ago
If you can mobilize enough people to make a stink, councils will give you whatever it takes to make you go away.
Even if politicians were entirely pure and good, the calculus yields a bias towards non-action.
Each and every decision will piss someone off. Now or any time in the future. Some of the enraged can make a stink. It's very hard to predict negative outcomes. So the best strategy is to play it safe.
Then add corruption, incompetence, fossilized worldviews, and pathologically power obsessed try hards.
Politics is just the worst. And unfortunately necessary.
- asdff 3y agoSo many issues come down from the fact these people need to campaign to keep their jobs. Imagine if the sewer department operated like this, with engineers fretting over if they should actually tear up the street and fix the main or if that would piss off some wealthy donors to their reelection bid, instead of just doing work that is known by domain experts to be unequivocally required according to the realities of the situation.