At election time, there is a certain risk that is most severe in local elections: the risk that friendship will trump judgment.
If we instinctively know how destructive leftist policies are, in terms of promulgating high taxes, burdensome regulations, etc., we are less likely to be conned into voting for a leftist for state or national office… because we do not know them personally, so we can think objectively.
At the local level, however, it is easy to be conned.
That leftist running for alderman, school board, library board, or township trustee is probably just as dangerous, just as destructive, as the congressional candidates you have no trouble voting against, year after year.
But you know THIS guy or gal personally.
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