I just want to point out, being the literal architect of the Local Council, that the notion it's hamstrung or prohibited from doing things by the Charter is 100% wrong. I cannot count the number of times I've explained that to LC members, Delegates, the Assembly, etc., since I invented the Local Council as it exists today. We have been repeating ad nauseam that we wanted to see the Local Council do things other than just poorly moderate the RMB. We've spent years trying to help the Local Council devise different ideas, from having no semblance of government at all and just focusing on moderation, to forming their own branches within the confines of the RMB and having a fully fledged local government. Not a single elected councilor ever tried to do anything other than the status quo.

So I sit here and read this thread and can't help but feel like somebody's trying to gaslight me. The Local Council's failures are their own, not anybody else's. They've had so many hands extended, so many ideas given to them, so many attempts to do more, and declined every time. Because at the end of the day, the RMB simply does not care. None of the current LC are representative of the RMB and frankly neither is anybody else here. You're all outliers, nothing like the average poster. The Local Council is an exclusive popularity club that prefers to maintain the status quo of being glorified moderators with control over polls, while offering up fantasies they will never have the capacity to fulfill (or an RMB that wants to fulfill them) whenever the status quo is placed in the spotlight. The RMB itself largely doesn't care what the government is or does, and those who do vote in LC elections are just ticking a poll option based on whoever's popular or whatever whim happens to dictate their votes.

We've been doing this song and dance for years. Every time the topic comes up, somebody always repeats the same arguments Beepee, Evinea, and others are repeating. But it's all fake and leading nowhere. Nothing ever changes. Not a thing written here in support of keeping the LC will result in anything happening with the LC or the RMB. We could do every single thing being proposed as an alternative to abolishing the LC and just having RMB mods, and it will not matter, because it has never mattered before any time we've done what people say will "fix the LC."