St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.

St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    How about getting over the sex of the politicians and just voting based on their programs? Too strange?

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      43·
      1 year ago

      Because a diverse group of people are able to provide new insights into those programs. As long as people are stuck with representative democracy, it’s beneficial to get differing voices in. Historically those voices have been silenced, so there needs to be a bit of concerned effort to get them heard and catch up on the ‘backlog’.

      We really need direct democracy with people free to vote on issues themselves without having to try to find someone who’s looking out for what they’re going through as a representative.

      • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        We really need direct democracy with people free to vote on issues themselves

        Nah, it would be abused. Politicians, as much as we all hate them, work as a kind of filter ensuring that proper processes are followed. Passing laws is not easy, that’s why professionals do it. A referendum from time to time is a good thing but if people were to directly vote on all the issues they would quickly get tired and some minority with agenda would start sneaking in their laws everywhere.

        As to getting different voices in you can also have expert groups and public consultations. I definitely see the benefits of electing minority representatives but I think focusing on sex/race like that is still pretty silly thing to do and hope one day we’ll grow out of identity politics.