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Originally Posted by Atocep
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When I sit in traffic I draft an essay about being a liberal knee-deep in Idaho state government. The wackiness, the horrors, how both sides kind of hate you, but also how public service really really feels like service.
Mostly, I know that the very most important thing is to recruit the next generation of young, diverse, liberal, educated, intelligent public servants all over, and, how neither side wants that. The right wants to stay in power, the left is discouraging young liberals from joining these systems. Or even moving to or staying in red states. I don't argue about politics much in real life but there has been tension in my friend group about (those of us that work there) staying in Idaho government. But to me its more important than ever to do both of those things.