Comment on Governments are just groups of strangers who happen to be in positions of power.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Actually, in smaller countries like the UK, yes. It’s not uncommon to know your MP and in devolved areas like Northern Ireland, your MLA. I knew a few and have even met the First Minister a few times.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yeah. I went to a friend’s birthday hangout at a local pizzeria, and there were five of us around a table, and one guy was a city council member. The good ones are not that inaccessible.