If by battleground areas you mean swing states, then the national popular vote could reduce that cross-state migration and canvassing that we see so much of.
Still, does someone in Georgia not have a stake in whether Florida lines their roads with radioactive agricultural waste? In our industrialized, globalized economy stakes reach much farther than a neighborhood or city level.
> Claiming that any discussion of that sort is ‘friendly neighborhood discussion’
Bit of a straw man to quote something nobody in this thread said.
Nobody said civic duty is champagne and French fries. Just that rejecting it has a cost, and the people who cause that cost have a tendency to congregate. That, in turn, frees up resources for the communities who bother organizing.
Someone literally equated folks from other states as having similar stakes as actual neighbors. This isn’t strawmanning.
And you’re the one that keeps beating ‘civic duty’ when I’m pointing out the disingenuous and manipulative nature of a lot of the current political strategies - including fake grass roots ‘neighbors’.
Which people have a right to ignore, despite your statements otherwise.
Personally, I’d argue they have an actual civic duty to ignore or even ostracize folks doing that, as that kind of manipulative lying is what poisons actual civic discussion.
Still, does someone in Georgia not have a stake in whether Florida lines their roads with radioactive agricultural waste? In our industrialized, globalized economy stakes reach much farther than a neighborhood or city level.