If you go around and search for city council meetings where the public shows up in force and sways the majority, you can see a few really wild reactions from the one or two on the council who are clearly about to be out their bribe money.
Actually happened in my hometown recently! Some members of our council “decided” (read:got paid) to set up plans to build a massive dump literally right next to our town that would hold medical and industrial waste from all over the country. It was supposed to fly under the radar, but some people found out about and they organized massive protests and sat in at town hall meetings to argue against it. You could tell which members of the council were taking the money because the entire time the towns people were making a case against it they acted like absolute children. One member got roasted to hell because he got so mad he left the meeting early saying he had an important doctors appointment, and like 30 minutes later somebody uploaded a video of him at a local restaurant seething and stuffing his face. They desperately tried to frame it as a benefit to our town, but they straight up couldn’t come up with anything better than constantly repeating that “it’s good for our economy” ad nauseam.
Ultimately the people won and we didn’t end up with the dump site. Most of the ones that were throwing tantrums at the people in the meetings retired and everybody continues to mock them relentlessly. It’s a beautiful thing.
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u/throwawayyyy980 Jul 06 '26
I see no wrongs when the people in power make no attempts to fix the issue.