And complain directly through the open channels.
Or, create pressure groups.
It amounts to a completely different political system also in practical terms.
Non so neanche io cosa si può fare per cambiare Roma, forse devono cambiare i romani…
It is as if the concept of duly respect of limits was gone societally.
You know, there is this English word, 'frown', which comes from French and Gaulish: it means to make a monstrous expression through "making big nostrils" - 'frogne', the nostrils of an animal. If only the rich Italian language had a word for _unduly passivity_, maybe something like "marked by having one's nostrils made monstrously enlarged, animal-like"...
> This was what X said before they ruled the city for years, and now
This directly translates to: "X stated that individual citizens should take action to bring change. /Incidentally/, X was /also/ appointed, and nothing changed". No information is there about the actions taken by individual citizens.