[title The Localist Legislator: Last Hope Of The Middle Class?]
Posted by Ada Coddington for R3publicansl
With political courage and the support of the grassroots, state legislators can still do the hard work of governing.
Ronald Reagan chalked up his success in politics to its correlation with show business. Social critic Neil Postman ruefully agreed, adding that in American democracy “the idea [of politics] is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty, but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.” Without reading Postman, middle America knows from experience that the politicians they send to Washington are not always as they appear. However, the ones who stay close to home—the elected members of state legislatures—are a different breed.
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