Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
Your defending them or you are really not getting your point across.
If people don't understand how elections work then they can't change anything. Being a business owner or property owner is irrelevant to an election. Being a registered voter is everything.

If you think your opinion should be our policy, then you need to convince a majority of registered voters that your opinion would be in their best interests.

And you have to be willing to concede that if the majority of voters reject your opinion then at least until the next election the official policy of the town must be what the voters have determined.

That doesn't mean the losers can't continue to critique and complain and lobby for their opinion, but if they won't recognize that the people have made a choice in the last election, they certainly can't expect the majority of people to take their critiques, complaints, and lobbying for the next election seriously.

Take the example of a minimum wage. the majority of voters in this country have decided that a federal minimum wage is appropriate. Your "opinion" that it should not be that way doesn't change that. Getting a majority of people to vote for candidates who think your way might change the collective position of we the people, but until you do that, our collective position, whether you agree with it or not, is that there should be a federal minimum wage.