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In reply to the discussion: Why are Cuomo and De Blasio fighting? [View all]NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)"how much as really improved"?
You know what works? Organizing and voting. Exactly zero things will change unless people get involved at the lowest levels of government. That's how reform happens. That's how you're going to get real, concrete change: by voting out mayors and city councilmembers and and town board members and sheriffs who either make bad policy or stand in the way of changing it. That's how conservatives were able to get so much power in this country. They started at the bottom: with the offices most people don't pay attention to, but that make the policies that actually affect the vast majority of people's day-to-day lives.
The problem is that most people only show up every four years to vote for the president. Showing up at that local city council election that only 10 people vote in and electing people interested in implementing real change is going to do 100x more to improve things for the average person in your community than kicking Trump out will.