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I Voted for John Fetterman. He Betrayed Supporters Like Me. (www.currentaffairs.org)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If I'm employed as a bus driver, and I decide overnight that I'm just going to start working dispatch without approval, I lose my job.

We need a mechanism to remove representatives who have chosen to no longer represent what they did when elected. Or, we need to stop using representatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

In theory, the election cycle acts as that mechanism and they'd fail to get reelected. However, a combination of the 2-party-system and general voters' apathy when it comes to politics means that in the vast majority of cases an incumbent just needs to slap a D or R next to their name and they're in office for as long as they want.

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