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Originally Posted by Willravel
You can write them, too. You can vote on popularity polls. You can write op-eds in your local paper. You can even run against them. Voting is not the only tool at a citizen's disposal.
Regardless, how will you vote for the right guy if you don't know when the wrong guy screws up?
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I include all of that as part of being a citizen, except for running against them. I personally have no interest and neither do a majority of people.
This puts me back to where I was with the coop. While you'll say that it's not the same, I submit that the human ability and the dynamic is the same, just not to the scale or impact to the world at large.
I didn't like how they were not notify people of the coop with financial information or communications. I ran for a seat on the board that very reason because the rest of it didn't seem to do much esle.
and here's where it all falls apart...
No matter how much I want to communicate what is going on, I'm bound by keeping things unspoken until they are voted upon. Even then I'm not able do do as I please and post and announce things as I have to be concerned about the liablilty to the corporation and the directors and officers of the board. I also cannot just create things or do what I feel is best. I have to do what the majority vote is, even when I disagree with what is happening. If there's even a deferment of discussion, I have to wait. I cannot explain to you how slow it has taken to do things that should be completed in 1 weeks time but because the board requires this or that, it takes months upon months.
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