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> US citizens elected representatives to make laws for them. Even more so, this is a bipartisan law.

A majority of American citizens want affordable healthcare, housing, and education, net neutrality, an arms embargo vs Israel, an end to illegal forever wars, stronger environmental protections, cleaner water, less fossil fuel use and an end to fracking, etc - and there's still bipartisan resistance in our politics and media against all of those.

Congress doesn't actually represent us, it represents capital. Been like that for a long time. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

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I don't understand this. In my view most people don't want this otherwise they would have implemented a government where the majority is heard, but they didn't. And don't even seem to try.

Either it's a dictatorship or it's listening to the majority. There is nothing democratic about acting against the majority. Never was

> In my view most people don't want this

The polls on all the above are pretty clear. There's no need to rely on your own viewpoint.

> otherwise they would have implemented a government where the majority is heard, but they didn't.

May I suggest reading some Chomsky, or at least watching Manufacturing Consent.

> Either it's a dictatorship or it's listening to the majority.

It's a plutocracy, and this has never been more obvious.

> There is nothing democratic about acting against the majority.

Well, there you go. Do check out those polls.

Nevertheless, the voters made their choice and actively voted for these representatives.

If everyone is so outraged and there's so many TikTok users, they can rally and vote out the people who voted for this.

I for one support this ban fwiw. You'll find out a lot of people do too. So in this instance and quite a few others, my representative has voted in my favor.

Voting between 1 of 2 respectives every few years to represent all issues doesnt seem to represent how citizens feel about individual issues.

What would your system be?

Democratic

So mob rule? Doesn't work.

That’s not how voting works in practice. The people I vote for do not match my views on every single topic. Just enough (weighted) that they are the better choice.

It is possible that every single candidate on the ballot is in agreement on a topic that every single non-candidate voter has the opposite view on. That doesn’t mean nobody gets elected.

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