@unabomber @meowski @brad @BowsacNoodle @chillpilled @lichelordgodfrey You can’t ignore defense as long as a ruler like Xi would like to use nukes to defeat and later occupy the US.
Locally, because of federalism all the other issues are still relevant, and if you’re in a good enough place, yes, voting makes a big difference.
As I keep saying, here in my corner of deep Red state flyover country we’ve got a corrupt ruling class, especially at the city level, yet we keep sending the worst actors back home to spend more time with their families and after 1-2 betrayals on new taxes have totally refused to play ball.
“opt-out communities” is I think a non-starter in the US simply because the Left won’t leave us alone, it’s not in their nature going back to founding of the modern Left in the French Revolution, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e