I live in one of the bluest states, and the politics here is so far slanted to the left it is nearly impossible to make any inroads whatsoever.
We do have conservatives here, but it sure feels like spitting into the wind.
But I have to keep trying. I cannot surrender and just become a keyboard warrior, though it is an outlet for me.
I’m in Canada, and I live in a left wing area on the West Coast.
Nevertheless we were able to block a gigantic sewage processing plant and delay another (which was eventually forced by the Province). The plants were to be dumped in our area as the municipality seen as the least able to fight back.
What we haven’t been able to do is block or modify huge condo developments where the builder deliberately doesn’t build enough parking. The density is excessive for the roads to begin with, but these developers deploy platitudes about the “post-automobile” lifestyle, and the city council lets them get away with it because they are marketing it as “green”.
In the past, left wing councils would see developers not building parking as developer greed, and creating congestion in the neighbourhood, but now they redefine it as Woke, and permit it.