colombia elections just got real, and common sense is taking a backseat to virtue signaling in my own neighborhood.
Can we talk about the new "community engagement" initiative the city council is pushing, supposedly inspired by colombia elections and their focus on grassroots participation? Our tax dollars are now funding a weekly "pothole poetry slam" where people can read haikus about infrastructure problems. Meanwhile, the elementary school playground has broken glass for the third time this month, and the crossing guard quit because no one would pay for a proper vest. This is common sense, folks: potholes need asphalt, not sonnets. But I guess we're too busy holding focus groups for the city's new "emotional support guinea pig" program to notice the actual roads are crumbling. Unbelievable.