Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains
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Hi Bill,
Perhaps I can ask a different question, despite the election overall. What are the day to day responsibilities of these good citizens? If you’re really about socially and culturally cementing your values in the day to day, aren’t you doing that in what you do day to day? In the local political and socio-political organizations in your community (local town, local state level, etc), at work, and if you’re see an issue working with your representatives? Why do we get all apoplectic with a national election when the real juice to be squeezed is at the local level, and if you can get so worked up over a national election.
>>Why do we get all apoplectic with a national election when the real juice to be squeezed is at the local level . . .<< You are right that there is plenty to be done locally. I would add that voting locally is much more effective than voting nationally, and the more local the more effective -- for obvious reasons. But the bigger and more tyrannical the federal gov't, the less liberty at the local levels. Example: the Biden admin's interference with Texas's right to defend its border against the illegal immigrant invasion.
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