If the people don't agree with something they can always do three things in a democratic country:

* start a party to push for legislative changes that resonate with what the people want

* vote for a party that propose to change certain legislation to something more adjacent to what the people want

* people can lobby the government via interest groups or as a collective to influence politicians or if the constitution allows for it try and hold a popular vote on the issue(s)

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dkiebd 2 days ago | parent [-]

That doesn’t work for small issues like this, as well as you know. And the proof is that wildly unpopular things like this keep occurring. We don’t live in a democracy if it’s not like in Switzerland with their direct democracy where we can vote on all issues one by one. What we have is a joke.

	▲	0dayz 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		There's been countless of small concerns that had been able to be propelled to becoming law or do you think that banning plastic straws is a genuine big movement? It came from within the party that pushed for it.