When was the last time you felt that you were well represented by a politician - be it at local or national level? What was the occasion?

Bernie, and never again or before.

Tim Walz during covid.

I saw that small businesses like restaurants wanted to close for the safety of their employees but the national chains wanted to stay open for profits. If individual businesses would have closed, they would lose business possibly forever. They needed the statevto mandate a closure to protect their employees and their ability to keep their customers. Walz declared a closure. I've spoken with almost s dozen local businesses who all feel the same.

Conversely, Walz allowed chiropractors to stay open because the state saw that they took some of the load off of the already overloaded hospitals.

Looking at all the bumper stickers and yard signs, he is quite unpopular, but I feel that he looked at the evidence (not the politics) and made a hard decision at the potential expense of his career.

Bonus, during covid, he had the best ASL interpreter on the press releases.

JB Pritzker has been a pleasant surprise for Illinoisans. With him being another billionaire in politics, I held my nose and voted for him the first time because he promised us legal weed and the other guy was awful.

But at every turn he's proven that he really is out there for the people and for Illinois. The rare type of billionaire who has good intentions and is satisfied with what he has and therefore can't be bought or bribed. He's consistently done good work for us and is taking a stand against the Trump administration. I'll be happy to vote for him for a third term or presidential primary.

Bernie Sanders, man is always on the right side of history, just wish he fought harder against the dem party

Obviously Bernie. That's my dude, but I'll admit to another that turned sour.

Mother fucking Fetterman.

He's local to me, and hearing about everything he did as mayor just made him sound like an awesome guy. Living in a foreclosed car dealership, seriously improved living conditions for the poor, hoodie and jeans, tattoos honoring people he never met, he just sounded like somebody I could relate with.

Well, then he had a stroke, joined the Senate and has been embarrassing himself and me ever since. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Tammy Duckworth is my senator.

Corbyn, and then never again. They assassinated him in all but body.

I haven't yet

I was having trouble providing proof of residence for voting in a local election.

I went to the politician's office, explained my situation. They scanned what ID I did have and helped me get registered to vote.

Never.

Vermin Supreme comes close to treating the corporate state with the respect it deserves, but there's no leadership under all that absurdity.

Perfectly represented - never. Partially yes - I can always find someone who's opinions are not completely abhorrent, and some of it agrees with mine. But it's never all in one candidate.

So I resort to alternate voting. If any of the acceptable candidates is currently in opposition I vote for them, choosing whichever party is not currently in government but has a reasonable chance to enter government in the next cycle.

Jeremy Corbyn, 2019 UK election. He lost due to several factors but especially sabotage from within his own party and a corrupt media. Apparently it's all well documented in this 3 part series though I've never had the heart to watch it.

Can't say that I ever have. But with how many people are covered, even locally, it may be a fools errand to hope for a person like that.

Generally speaking, local has been pretty decent even if I don't always get what I'd like. Let's just say Cop City kinda tainted everyone.

Danica in Virginia.

At a local level my city in the UK took our Metrolink (tram) and bus services back under council control and I like our mayor as he seems to get things done.

An a national level, I don’t know think ever, we were meant to get HS2 (high speed rail) and that was canned after spending billions.

Closest was @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social when he fought (and still ist) against Chatcontrol.

Nationally, I kind of feel like the guys in right now have a similar-ish outlook. Locally, never, because this is a safe riding for a party I've never voted for.

That was ten years ago, when MEP Christian Engström gave this speech in parliament: https://youtu.be/0bNB75vhVuQ

Marsha blackburn, bill haggerty, Diana Harshbarger. I am not a red voter. So hell no.

The platform that best supports my concerns is that of the US Green Party.

Unfortunately, it has far to go to represent that platform in any effective way. No possibly effective leader that I know of has ever emerged for it. (The current, so-called leader has zero presence anytime, anywhere.) If it could become at least -somewhat- sizeable, it could outreach its size in two-party deadlocks by trading deciding votes for concessions.

Went to a demonstration in support of Ukraine and our president was there as a speaker. That was nice.

There is this one guy that represented me well for the last 6 years. While he was running the party things were good. From then on things went a bit downhill. He is still there and doing a good job though.

Kevin Rudd.

Then the great backstab/overthrow calamity began.

Oh yeah, talking about Australia here.

I've never felt fully represented.

Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, proud lesbian and represented Wisconsin well

Our last election was like.. may 2024? So then :3