Beyond elections, our task is to build community. Block associations, volunteer groups, church organizations, PTAs, activist organizations because community is the most powerful building block we have to defeat authoritarianism and root out corruption.
Emphasizing the importance of community in political engagement.
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Right. I think that a lot of these races, even right now, they’ll have a tendency to be nationalized. … But these races, ultimately, are local, and all politics are local.
Of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.
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