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"AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it."

Amazing. We the people are not engaged. It really feels like we're at the end of history or something.

We The People are simply no longer represented. Do the math on historic representation ratios and you'll quickly see the first consolidation (long before corporate or bureaucratic) was Representation. We are about 6500 Reps shy of an actual Democratic Republic.
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