I was talking to my neighbor this morning about the election. He said, he just finished his mail-in ballot and it only took a few minutes. It took me at least a couple of hours to go through all the propositions, amendments, local and state candidates for office. Of course what my neighbor did was to just vote for the president and skipped the rest. Yet the rest, local and state issues and candidates have the greatest impact on our daily lives. The president didn't close or open the schools and business in my town, increase my property taxes by 20%, close my favorite camping place, get the potholes fixed on my street, or open a new dog park two blocks from my house. Yet people act as if the only important issue to be decided next week is which party controls the presidency and the congress.
Most of the things that impact your daily life happen on a local level and are influenced by local politics, but because we are bombarded by national stories every moment of every day, we find ourselves thinking nationally, not locally. It’s time for that to change.
Most of the things that impact your daily life happen on a local level and are influenced by local politics, but because we are bombarded by national stories every moment of every day, we find ourselves thinking nationally, not locally. It’s time for that to change.