The only election that we all participate in together is for President

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2. Nationalizing local elections takes focus off economic issues and on to culture wars, purity tests, single issues

and used against Democrats, like accusations of "ignoring the working class" because elite establishment at swanky parties off in Washington with "donor class" -- that BS.

Then national elections are treated more like local ones, making it about personal character, encouraging people to make it a moral personal choice like "voting my conscious" and liking the candidate rather than party policy.