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Leaders = voted-for representatives. They were elected by the people to represent the people.
Where I live, we codified anti-gerrymandering into the state constitution. Didn't stop republicans from pushing a blatantly unconstitutional district map. The response was "well, we'll review it, but it's our only option". It feels like they're saying "fuck you, there's nothing you can do to stop us", and short of blatant political violence? I think they are right.
Many of these people weren't even legally elected to their positions. They do not represent us. Our state and federal governments have been corrupted and abused by people with huge amounts of capital, for many many decades now.
also massive propaganda apparatus by FOX and russia plus voter suppression methods that downturns voting behaviour too.
Lol, I like the fantasy land in which you inhabit.
Leaders = people who the people were forced to make a choice between only bad options, that nobody wanted, and your votes not mattering at all if you're in a place where they've done dirty tricks like gerrymandering and vote prevention
This idea that only the presidential election matters in the US is wild. Does the senate and congress just sit there doing nothing? Could all of this have been prevented if the political scene wasn't already shifted all the way towards Trumpism?
The prez has the power to add people to the senate, which is a job for Life, and Trump stacked the deck in his favour the last time he was in power
The fantasy land is called Earth and it has the worst lore of all the worlds