• frostysauce@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Oh, yeah, let me just read entire fucking hundreds or thousands of pages long pieces of legislation in my free time so that I may be an informed voter… smh

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      5 days ago

      You just need to look at a few important ones. Hypothetically, a rural american might be incredibly distressed by Republican economic and healthcare policy. An urban third party voter might be flabbergasted that the things they fight for all these years were actually core DNC platforms constantly called to vote and filibustered by the GOP. Etc.

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        5 days ago

        You’re ignoring the issue. You said Congress has every bill including the contents online as if that somehow lowers the barrier for engagement. Do you think people are willing or even able to read and understand pieces of legislation hundreds or thousands of pages long written in indecipherable legalese? Let alone “a few important ones?”