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Old 04-08-2018, 11:35 PM
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Again, it blows my mind that the masses don’t see that as a problem. Not just the bill, but the fact that the Governor and legislators can simply put bills and laws into place as they please.

Forget about the checks and balances or putting it to the vote of the people. Authoritative lawmaking is what we need in CA.
Much longer would be really off topic, but that's a lot of the difference between 'direct democracy' and 'representative democracy'.
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