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juuular | 3 years ago

Maybe federally (or even state-wide). Locally you can have a MASSIVE impact, and local politics in many ways trickles up to the national level.

edit: ymmv, hard work & organizational skills still required

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the_only_law|3 years ago

How? If I live in a town/city/state/whatever where 70% support party X unquestionably what good is voting in the elections going to be if I support the Y candidate? I’ll always be outvoted unless the local majority absolutely fails to show up.

I met a guy running for congress a couple years back and had some discussion. We didn’t align politically but he seemed like a genuine guy who cared about helping people in his district more than reciting the party line and joining in on culture wars, and ultimately that screwed him out of the election.

The only time I can’t understand voting is in swing places where a small margin can make a difference, but even then I wouldn’t vote given some of the people on both sides running.

newZWhoDis|3 years ago

Local politics is a sham. My local AT&T fiber node is not being tapped by my local government. Traitorous elements within the NSA conspired to defraud the United States by violating our constitutional rights and tap my local fiber grid.

If you make $150k/year half your paycheck goes towards funding traitors to the United States of America, funding people actively seek to undermine the constitution.

umanwizard|3 years ago

My neighborhood council is not the one doing mass wiretapping. That’s the federal government (and, presumably, the central governments of other countries too).