As someone who's just joined the local government I can say that the trolley murder system is very much entrenched. I'm trying to slow down the trolley but it would probably be best to tear up the tracks, melt the iron and build a monument for posterity.
Local government is a good place to implement change. It's not as difficult for a city to say that they're going to build non-market housing, or ban r1 zoning, or removing minimum parking requirements, or reducing police funding, etc. Extragovernmental work is just as important as leftists in government. This meme is a bit too reactionary towards people on the inside fighting for change.
It depends on so many factors. My local government is all boomers and older. My voice and lack of experience isn't as influential as the others. Although we've discussed issues like preserving naturally occurring affordable housing, it's clear that final decisions are at the whims of people who are unaffected by the housing crisis.
The real solution is for many, many, many younger people to get involved. We can't sit on our asses, complaining on the internet, and expect anything to happen.
Not talking about you, of course. Just continuing on from your comment...
I mean, not like you can pump the brakes from the outside.
Not like you can from the inside either. You're just a murder trolley driver, you don't even have the break keys.
I work making low quality dog food; like stuff the local shelters won't accept unless they get desperate. You bet your ass I do my job properly to make sure the dogs can't get salmonella from the food. I can't stop people buying it, but I'll do what I can for safety.
People are so quick to judge the murder trolley system, but they don't even understand it. They want to take away the rights of murder trolley conductors just because they have no idea what it's like. They just hear that people die and hop on the anti-murder-trolley-bandwaggon. Sure, a few people die but it's not that many and some of them might be bad people. There's two sides to every story. Coming from a loving murder-trolley-conductor family I can assure you, NOT conducting the murder-trolley is the immoral thing to do. Just look at the impact on overpopulation and the decline in overall old-age disease in murder-trolley countries. I bet most people haven't even tried it and just want to judge.
The breaks are inside the murder trolley.
So you are joining Reddit then? :-P ๐
Reddit is beyond help, OP is police officer