I’m a libertarian, not a liberal. We’re the “individual liberty, free markets, and peace” group, to borrow the Cato Institute’s motto.
Let’s say, though, that you’re one of Whitewater’s progressive residents. I don’t doubt your sincerity.
I wonder, instead, about the local application of your principles. The left in Whitewater has turned around the mantra ‘Think globally, act locally’ into something different: ‘Vote nationally, compromise locally.’
That national commitment doesn’t translate to local, political change. Quite the contrary – Whitewater shows no signs of the political principles that progressives advocate nationally. Whitewater’s leading local party would best be described as Incumbents, not Democrats or Republicans.