Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
random000 4 points 3 months ago.

Locally democracy & voting tends to work acceptably much to most people’s satisfaction. Nationally it’s a different animal. With that, there are plenty of examples on a local level where the will of the people was usurped in spite of voting results. Still - local voting is much more effective than national.

grasshopper rex 2 points 3 months ago.

True. I should have made it clear that I was talking about national elections. I do vote at the state and local levels still. Those are the ones that have the most impact on my life and where my vote might actually do some good. Whichever figurehead is in the Oval Office makes no difference to me as far as I can tell.

Austin has pretty much had a liberal local government for as long as I can remember, slowly but surely though the neoliberals have taken over and the city that so many of it’s older citizens love has been ruined by the greed of these neoliberals that desire economic growth to the peril of everything that makes this city special. They are almost indistinguishable from their conservative counterparts. These yuppy, NIMBY assholes are not progressive by any stretch of the imagination, no matter how much they claim to be.