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Originally Posted by Pete F.
We need politicians who are willing to work hard, build teams to accomplish things and acknowledge that getting some of what you want is OK.
That pretty much sounds like what we have. Except the OK part is more like THE BEST WE CAN GET (until next time).
People who are involved in local politics learn that not everybody agrees with them completely,
Again, that's pretty much a given at any level of government, or in life in general.
but we all have common ground and common goals.
There's very little, if any, of that in current party politics.
Once they get out of town they forget that, or in some cases it may be that they never worked in local politics.
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Actually, they don't forget that. They take their town politics into a venue where the scope of federal political power is supposed to be smaller then that from whence they came. And so transfer the larger scope of local responsibilities to the federal level, adding them to those already enumerated as federal. That's the major difficulty we now have in maintaining a constitutional frame of government. It is the modern malady of constantly melding into a larger, more powerful, centralized government. Of course, you may not see that as a malady.
The Federalist group's notion of limited government and separation of powers probably differs from yours.