Most of the referendum laws sponsored by voters are Constitutional Amendments that take an extra supermajority of 3/4 I think to overturn them. Others like Florida it is just statutory law and when they passed that law allowing felons to vote the lawmakers just jammed it up with other laws so only like 200 of them were registered to vote election time.
Time to change that. https://respectmovoters.org/
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?
Well do not stop there, you should explain why the other side doesn’t get more votes.
Listen, we can’t upset the conservatives. If Republicans say they’re going to round up and deport all the migrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador, we need to say we’re going to only to it to half the migrants. If Trump wants to bomb China, we have to settle on bombing North Korea (again). If the Heritage Foundation has a plan to turn every public school into a Catholic Church, we need to sell people on turning them into Unitarian Churches.
We are doomed
Only because you didn’t vote harder! Nobody would be complaining right now if Kamala Harris had won. Everything would be happy and fine and good. But you people had to ruin her campaign by talking about medical debts and foreign wars. Damn you to hell! We could have had the a Neoliberal Utopia!
“This has shown Missourians just how out of touch our legislature is with the way the economy works for most families and their vision of how democracy should work in this state,” said Richard Von Glahn, policy director for Missouri Jobs with Justice, the organization that helped lead the campaign for the paid sick leave law.
Your heart is in the right place, my man, but that’s not “out of touch.” That’s OPEN HOSTILITY.
I’m tired of soft criticism like “out of touch” when lawmakers do something openly hostile to the will and benefit of constituents. They’re not out of touch, they’re self-serving authoritarians.
It is not a misunderstanding of the intentions so much as they are playing by the old rules where you do not call something for what it is out of polity.
An old decorum only exercised by the weak Democratic establishment now.
The Republicans do more than call out for what it is, they lie and accuse you of being the problem for their own perversions. But our Democrats refuse to even truthfully call a problem.
Truly! It would be a start to at least TRY to explain to these people that the upper class is waging open war.
No matter where it appears to be on a map, Missouri is in the deep south.
There’s a reason they pronounce the state name as “misery”.
IIRC they repealed this law because employers would have had to pay employees when they were sick
You don’t say? Thank goodness we have your recollection, we certainly wouldn’t want to read the article or anything. 👀
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