All politics is local.
True, but the locals have always needed a cheerleader to care. From the beginning of time it has been so. Look at the book of Judges how it took cheerleaders to step up to get them fired up.
I guess I am saying that locals need their own Braveheart to get the people stirred. Especially when the local conservative leaders are like the clan leaders, they failed to wake up the people and get then excited and fired up to fight back.