>>>>So, it's become with politics. The ad nauseum rehash of reactions to reactions has replaced good old politicking.
>>>>Not so at the local level though. There are some good local races coming up and I'll be out there knocking on doors.
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>>In support of whom?
>What, not whom.
>Potholes and garbage collection, not diatribes, drive local politics.
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> "Socialism is about democratizing the family to get rid of patriarchal relations; democratizing the political sphere to get genuine participatory democracy; democratizing the schools by challenging the hierarchical relationship between the teachers of the school and the students of the school."
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>That's a cultural- not a political - question.
>There's no doubt that a cultural shift has been underway since the 1960's and is gaining steam.
>Our tendency to politicize cultural questions is misguided.

Politics, on the other hand, has no problem influencing culture whenever it feels like, and not for reasons of general prosperity but to further its own agenda. So leaving the culture on the side means giving the politics a free hand there.