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In a situation like this the best action is to install a puppet who you can blackmail. Then use them to push policies you find favorable to you.

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I don't think student governments get to push policies that can actually help students very much. I don't think school administrations let the student government have any real control whatsoever.

It's a puppet puppet.

IIRC, my high school government was very effective at choosing the prom theme and lobbying for a specific brand of crackers in one of the vending machines.

The illusion of government power starts young.

Government seems pretty powerful. I mean, there's one guy elected by 213k people blocking the entire congress from passing any bills.

That may make that one guy powerful, but it makes government pretty powerless...

Unless of course, you're dealing with a Absurdly Powerful Student Council.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlyPowerful...

Joke:

Like Trump and the rumored pee-pee tape?

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)

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