Maybe some good news for the Americans?

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M075 said:
If i see a politician making small changes that help the people i think its pretty neat.
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Okay, sure. Now, taking the US as an example, since that was in the thread title...what percentage of the population of the US cares about this issue, or is even aware that the issue exists at all? Do you suppose it's even 0.01%? Out of ten thousand randomly-selected American citizens, I wonder if even one person would know or care. I want my government to "help the people"...not to "help that one single person way back in that corner".

So if my elected government representative wasted time on this rather than more pressing issues...and frankly, there aren't any less pressing issues...I'd want to know why.
 
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jjohnwm said:
Okay, sure. Now, taking the US as an example, since that was in the thread title...what percentage of the population of the US cares about this issue, or is even aware that the issue exists at all? Do you suppose it's even 0.01%? Out of ten thousand randomly-selected American citizens, I wonder if even one person would know or care. I want my government to "help the people"...not to "help that one single person way back in that corner".

So if my elected government representative wasted time on this rather than more pressing issues...and frankly, there aren't any less pressing issues...I'd want to know why.
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I get this, but I don't think elected officials at our federal level get involved very deeply in *any* issues, however important. They have enormous staff to do that. I'm not saying this disparagingly. There are far too many issues for them to be even a little bit informed on, including most of those that large numbers of their constituents would find important. No way one person can be even reasonably well informed about more than a couple or few, and even in those cases the staff will make sure everything they say, do, or vote on will align with priorities. So to have a few of these staff members here and there take an interest in an aquarium fish, and maybe find a way to get something sesnsible done with minimal time required by the representatives themselves, it might be feasible without interfering with more important issues. I still doubt there are enough people who care deeply enough to get anything sensible done, though, as it's so much easier for uninformed people to "err on the side of caution" by banning when in doubt and never looking back.
 
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