Comment 102909

By ItJustIs (registered) | Posted June 27, 2014 at 12:39:27 in reply to Comment 102907

I don't see it as a 'conspiracy'. Nor do I believe that 'small but powerful interest groups subvert real change'. (Aside from developers and the construction industry, but that pairing has been in play since the founding of the city, I'm sure.)

One of the pitfalls of being on a civic engagement site such as this one is that it's really easy to lose touch with everyone else. We get fired up about making the city better. And we feed off each others' energies. Now, I say this at the risk of being labelled a 'troll', but the truth of the matter is, no matter how many cities you can show are moving things in the right direction, in the main, for the majority of Hamiltonians, a lot of what we're impassioned about doesn't even register. Look; I'm out in the city daily. On HSR, on foot, in a car... Seeing how people live their lives. Striking up conversations. From Stoney Creek to Dundas, from the North End to Rymal Road.

So 'stupidity'? Actually, no. 'Disinterest'. 'Ambivalence'. 'Uninterested'. 'Apathy'. Hmm... Probably all of these in varying forms across the board. How to change this? It's no different than an election campaign: get out there and engage the public. Don't leave it to Councillors. Or City Staff. If Councillors hear more and more that their constituents...the people they HAVE to keep happy, because of the 'career politician syndrome' and its needs...want these things, then they'll be more apt to 'change'.

'Think outside the blog.'

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