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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I watched my dad get elected to local office with all kinds of ideas about how to improve things. In the end he managed to make sure the ugly apartment buildings a developer built weren't as ugly as they had planned, but even that took a bunch of meetings and a huge amount of time.

So getting elected to local office is absolutely easier than getting elected to state and federal, but making change in a local government is still fighting a huge amount of inertia.