What will it take to make democracy more representative?
Democracy Works
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What's Descriptive Representation?
When I was a political director in Texas, every meeting I went to with an elected official, worker leaders from the city of Houston, that's who we were organizing with at that time, would come with me. They would walk away with the impression that either the person we had met with actually understood some of the challenges and day-to-day issues they were talking about or that they were clueless. If we want to have processes and policies where people trust those we elect, there needs to be some shared sense of understanding of this is what it means to come from a life like mine right?
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