The tactic here is sneaking legislation through the system by bringing it up again and again, hoping for the public to eventually lose interest, or to catch a time with a lot of other drama going on so they can avoid the public attention/backlash.

I do think there are procedural ways to support this, like: proposed bills that are very similar to previous rejected ones need a preemptive vote with 60%+ support to be considered - if brought again with a certain time frame.

I do see your point though, there can be unforeseen consequences.

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Yeul 3 days ago | parent [-]

Good thing we have paid professionals whose job it is to vote on these things.

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gruez 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

But the whole premise is that those paid professionals have gone rogue?

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idle_zealot 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's really no fixing that kind of failure state with a bandage solution. The whole idea of a representative democracy is premised on citizens being able to elect representatives who represent their interests. If that's not holding then that's the part that needs to be fixed.

	▲	spwa4 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No the idea of representative democracy is that the representatives would still be of "better quality" than the population average, because it takes something to become one. This is done because there's no way the majority of citizens would vote to, say, responsibly manage debt.
	▲	coldtea 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'd say it's premised on the naivety of citizens to believe what they elect are representatives

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Yeul 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A political party can table any motion they want and other political parties will vote against it. That is not going rogue it is doing your job.

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the_duke 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Newsflash: it's the paid professionals that are doing this...

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coldtea 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's those paid professionals that are the problem