We are fighting the wrong enemy.

[jgmiller]

51. The old adage "All politics are local" is appropriate here

Yes the true enemy are the average GOP politicians who support the truly evil GOP politicians. They do this because of a combination of greed, fear and agreement with them.

However as others have pointed out the problem is really the people that vote for them and this is where the "all politics are local" comes in to play. We need to understand what local means, it doesn't always mean the district or city it can mean just the individual person or small group of friends and family. They vote a certain way because they don't care about ICE raids because they are white or they live in an area where it doesn't affect them. They don't care if the Kennedy Center is turned into a joke because they don't like musical theater. They don't care if inner city youth go hungry because they don't live in a big city or they have never been impacted by hunger themselves.

I could go on and on with examples but what these voters do care about is what impacts them. They might care that a member of the state assembly got a street light installed near their house so now it's safer to cross the street so when that assembly person runs for congress they remember that and vote for them. They don't care or even notice that the same person wants to ban 2,000 books from the local library.

They vote based on what they need and see in their own lives. When we run around and call the GOP facists we are right but that doesn't impact them so they keep falling for the GOP's lies and vote for them. We need to understand that and work this at the local levels. Grand sweeping plans and fights are great and get headlines but the way you win is at the very local level.