Governments are just groups of strangers who happen to be in positions of power.

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Even in a representative democracy, do you really know a person? I mean, 99% of the time, the candidate doesn’t even know you.

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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They’re not strangers, to each other, or to their constituency.

If you don’t know your local government, that’s on you. They’re people from your local community.

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- psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah. Get to know your candidate/representative is the basic of democracy, they don’t have to know you personally but they should at least know their constituent.
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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