Personally I dropped reddit when the api broke all apps except their own ad filled one. I do occasionally use it for niche stuff, but none of my browsers have my login tokens so it’s always just not logged in access. I haven’t made a single comment or upvote since I left, so all my critical comments would have been before his second term.
Those discussions are happening in some places, but there doesn’t seem to be as much here. There are people going for lower state positions, attempts and petitions for getting ranked choice voting, and people trying to challenge from the left in Dem primaries. Which all does have to do with voting, but has the potential to pull Dems more left. People do reach out to their reps, but between money and team sports I’m not sure how effective that is.
The current system and environment is very much built to allow two parties to keep fighting while ignoring third parties, and getting out of that within the confines of the system is a slow process. Slow processes also suffer from people’s impatience, often not changing things fast enough and losing support.
I’m not sure I understand your point. Do the other cities around share in the burdens of having the data center there? Are they sharing the consequences to water, electricity, and pollution equally? Tax burdens and the like as well? If not, why should it matter who the neighbors are? If so why are they even separated in the first place?