Last fall, Missouri voters expanded paid sick leave. This month, Missouri lawmakers repealed the paid sick law that voters approved
Last fall, Missouri voters expanded paid sick leave. This month, Missouri lawmakers repealed the paid sick law that voters approved
missouriindependent.com
Missouri voters expanded paid sick leave. The GOP undid it, and the repeal just took effect • Missouri Independent
don't worry though, they'll still vote in the same lawmakers.
Exactly, and they will be shown the receipts of this. But come election time, they will always pick R.
Then the cycle will repeat. They'll get poorer and be worse off, they'll blame someone else, we'll show them this again, and it cycles down. So many Rs never get it, seriously I don't need these programs, I was voting for you folks to have access to sick days and healthcare. Morons always vote against their own interests
This game gets played every election cycle. Popular legislation is proposed. Corporate media is inundated with "Actually this legislation is terrible and everyone who supports it is a Satanist". Popular opinion turns on the idea. Candidates run on a platform of "You didn't ask for this! It was an evil trick by the Far Left Antifa Terrorists!" Lather, rinse, repeat.
At some point, popular opinion isn't going to compete with a deluge of aggressive propaganda. Well-financed marketing teams can scream in your ear longer and louder than random conglomerates of local activists can fight back.
Add in widespread, strategic voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and roll purging. You end up with a state of 6.2M residents of which 4.6M are eligible voters. Of that 4.6M, only 3.7M are registered. And only 3.2M cast a ballot. This allowed a 1.7M voting majority to control the state's elected offices. A meager 26% of the public has a super-majority of representation across the state.
Liberal Democracy, folks!
Well do not stop there, you should explain why the other side doesn't get more votes. Because the opposition party is worthless at best. Being better than the other guy has never been enough to comfortably win elections and we already knew that but that is the only thing we are offering. The way to get elected is not to be half as Republican as the republicans, it is to be Champion popular reform and loudly fight for it. To call out villains by name, to have a, to have a fucking spine.
We are doomed with this same opposition party and Power and they are despite the last election. We should all agree that's a failure. Nobody answers for that? We allowed the same power Brokers to do the next one?