Local politicians should disseminate info about govt policy and programs and also provide first level assistance for handling problems created by those policies and programs.
Also, since civilivation has superceded the stage when people can just walk over to some piece of free land, build a shelter, and grow their own food and/or hunt and gather, the government has to get involbed withthe distribution of resources to people who are forever suspended inn "nonspace" over property they don't own. These people can only meet their basic needs through jobs, preferably jobs with regular salaries so people can shell out for the many rents and debts involved in holding on to an ecological niche for themselves in this environment. The job of the politician becomes to shape policy to maximize these ecological niches. If policy does not result in jobs, then it must result in other means of obtaining resources so people can hold their niche open.
It's popular for Teahadists to say maintenance of these ecological niches is simply not the job of government. They wish to withhold resources and hide in their bunkers with shotguns as the ecological niche of everyone who lost their job or became disabled or experienced discrimination of some sort totally collapsed from lack of access to food, housing, and other basic resources. A NASA report has predicted the total collapse of civilization as soon as 15 years - I think the low estimate is predicated on the Koch brothers buying LOCAL governments so the politicians stop bothering with the problems of their constituents. That will hasten the collapse of the niches.
That's my theory of politics.
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