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> The powerful are too detached from reality and consider this "not a dialog".

It's 2025. That the citizens don't have a government run website which allows them to register their sentiment, if not outright direct democratic vote, on every issue put before them is baffling to me.

Representatives made sense when horses were the fastest way to send news. They're a vestige on an otherwise powerful ideal.



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