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Well, politicians doing what people want in order to get reelected is kinda the point of democracy.
by paxys 3y ago
Well, politicians doing what people want in order to get reelected is kinda the point of democracy.
- colpabar 3y agoThere's no need to talk down to me. My point was that they could be doing what people want for the entire duration of their term, rather than in the last few months. To use an analogy, it's like a student getting bad grades all year and then doing a bunch of extra credit assignments when they're worried about failing the class.
- infamouscow 3y agoYour chief complaint is not new, it's nearly as old as democracy itself. Different forms of democracy have various trade-offs, what your describing is the trade-off of representative democracy.
- hughesjj 3y agoIs also partly the fault of voters for being so darn susceptible to recency bias. Do a lot of good at the start and then reach a lull and everyone's gonna hate. Timing can and has cost elections.
- astrange 3y agoThey've been working on this for two years, it was announced they'd do it in 2022.
- vuln 3y agoThey only dangle the carrot when they need something, ie reelection.
- dgunay 3y agoYeah, but based on the guiding principle of democracy (govt by the will of the people), you'd hope to see them do that immediately instead of waiting years and years to do it when it is most strategically advantageous. I know politics is gamey like that by nature, but it sucks to see. The lag time between a policy becoming overwhelmingly popular and it actually being implemented is often long enough to radically alter the course of millions of peoples' lives.
- yurishimo 3y agoWhile this is true, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. At some point, we decided as a nation to only care about politics during election years. Participation rates for local elections is near an all time low. If people were more involved with the process, I would imagine that we would see more movement in Congress as a reaction to the will of the people.
- paxys 3y agoIf doing it at the end of his term gets him more votes than the beginning, that means the voters want to see it done towards the end.
- paulddraper 3y agoYeah, if only every year were election year....