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daredtowork

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11. All politics is local
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 04:39 PM
Jan 2015

People will focus their energies on "big" campaigns and get more deadlocked congresses and/or congresses that focus on "big" policy that mainly touches the 1%.

Meanwhile the Koch Mafia will take over local politics, their minions will continue to wage"culture war" via every media outlet until our brains our saturated with their selfish amoral messages, and people will discover they can't get real world problems handled.

Votes will be eliminated as the poor are pushed into homelessness, the elderly are foced to move abroad, the over-stressed disabled die, and the remaining vote manipulated by gerrymandering, implementation of Voter qualification laws, and plain old dirty tricks.

The local politicians have to be working for the local constituents. That is foundational.

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