Jon writes:

< Voter turn-out, similarly, seems to rely on nation and imagined 
communities<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community>. >

If a candidate says “I will reallocate police funding to public safety” a voter 
can decide if that is code for a leftist imagined community that they might 
identify with, or if it will help or hurt them in concrete ways.   There are 
some that will vote based on an imagined group identity and aren’t directly 
impacted by how tax revenue is allocated.    Others won’t vote at all because 
they don’t believe any policy change will help them or because they are 
disenfranchised.   Getting a clear signal to them about what’s in it for them, 
and giving them the opportunity to vote, is harder than throwing around a lot 
of tribal BS.

Marcus
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