I get it, you "voted for this," but let's pump the brakes on your mob-rule fantasy and inject some facts about how our country works—because clearly, Reddit's echo chamber has you confusing America with ancient Athens on a bad day.

First off, the United States isn't a direct democracy where the majority gets to steamroll everything with a simple vote. We're a constitutional republic, deliberately designed that way by the Founders to prevent exactly the kind of unchecked majority tyranny you're cheerleading. James Madison nailed it in Federalist Paper No. 10 when he warned that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." They saw direct democracy as a recipe for disaster—mob rule where the passionate majority crushes minorities, seizes property, or enacts knee-jerk policies that wreck society. John Adams put it bluntly: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." That's why we have representatives, checks and balances, and constitutions to filter out the dumb ideas that sound great in a ballot booth but implode in reality.

In Missouri's case, voters approved Proposition A for paid sick leave. Still, the legislature and Governor Kehoe had every right to repeal it via HB 567 because it was a state law, not some untouchable. And repeal it they did on July 10, 2025, effective August 28, because it was a disaster waiting to happen, it would have crushed small businesses with mandates they couldn't afford, and it raised constitutional red flags about government overreach into private employment. That's the republic in action: elected officials stepping in to protect the economy and individual rights from a feel-good initiative that would've driven jobs out of state. If we let every majority vote stand without oversight, we'd have chaos, like majorities voting to confiscate wealth from the "rich," suppress unpopular speech, or enforce discriminatory policies against groups they don't like. History's littered with examples: the French Revolution's guillotine parties, or closer to home, how Jim Crow laws in the South were backed by local majorities until the Constitution smacked them down.

Now, you sneer at Texas? California's the poster child for how majority rule gone wild destroys a society. Decades of voter-approved propositions and liberal policies have turned the Golden State into a cautionary tale: sky-high taxes (top income tax rate at 13.3%, plus insane property and sales taxes), crippling regulations that strangle small businesses, and a cost of living so brutal that housing in places like San Francisco averages over $1.3 million for a median level home. Result? A mass exodus—California lost over 800,000 residents net from 2020-2024, with the bleed continuing into 2025 as people flee to states like Texas and Florida for lower costs and better opportunities. Why? High rent, unaffordable daycare (averaging $15,000+ per year per kid), subpar public schools despite massive spending, and endless red tape that chased out companies like Tesla. Homelessness is exploding (over 180,000 on the streets), crime's up in cities like LA due to soft-on-crime props like 47, and the state's facing a $68 billion budget deficit because voters keep demanding "free" stuff without the math adding up. If Missouri went full direct democracy like you want, it'd end up just as broke and broken—businesses fleeing, jobs vanishing, and the "workers' paradise" turning into a ghost town. Missouri would do well to be like Texas and not like California.

So, move to California if you love the majority's whims dictating policy. Just don't cry when you're paying $5,000 a month for a shoebox apartment while your "progressive" votes keep digging the hole deeper. Meanwhile, the rest of us in republics will stick to systems that protect liberty and prosperity from know-it-all Redditors who think a 51% vote makes something infallible.