It’s not the bureaucracy from the movie Brazil , they’re often regular people dealing with batshit nazis, wild-eyed tankies and everything in between as best they can. If you haven’t seen it in person, it’s pretty interesting.

I have and I do. For the record, they’re corporate democrats and they more or less ignore that tally.

The official justification from the horse’s mouth, the last time, was that “the broad public can’t possibly understand that [insert corpo propaganda here]”

I believe specifically it was about privacy, and the bullshit was privacy laws would break the internet. (They didn’t mention how much she received from Google.)

Another (state) rep who was also a democrat, once told me to my face that water rights were too complicated for normal people. Not really. It’s not hard to say the climate is changing and we should protect and restrict access to our water use; instead of letting companies ship it elsewhere.

The only people opposed were the companies shipping it elsewhere.