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Old 05-07-2022, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Love2Swim View Post
The difference is, we voted to elect the city officials to make decisions in our best interest, and if they fail, we can elect different officials. Here we have the benevolent dictator, ie, the Developer who claims to know what's best for the old folks, and if decisions are made which benefit the family, but not the residents so much, we have little recourse.
I would add that if we vote in officials to make decisions in our best interest, but those interests don’t align with a certain very powerful entity, strings will be pulled so that said officials are thrown out of office and replaced with hand picked puppets.