I actually think the advantage is that it is significantly more realistic to fund a campaign for a 40,000 size seat than a couple hundred thousand, so it’s easier to have upstart campaigns from third parties.
And yet if you look at who drives politics and finances all the campaigns in a small town, it's all the usual suspects. Landowners and major employers and sometimes some out of town gigacorp that wants to ban municipal broadband, or open a coal mine, or something of the sort.
For some reason, you never really get some field of a thousand flowers of unique political insights blooming.
> For some reason, you never really get some field of a thousand flowers of unique political insights blooming.
Not sure what you’re looking for, but the national scene howls whenever a locality gets creative with decriminalization or harm reduction or de-policing or school curriculums etc etc.
For some reason, you never really get some field of a thousand flowers of unique political insights blooming.