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One of the best experiences (and in some ways one of the worst, but that's another story!) I've had in life was being an elected member of local government. And one of the things that made it so valuable, I think, was interacting with and at times working alongside, members of the other parties. What I learned from that, is that once you take away the ideologues (on both sides) and the self-interest (again on both sides) most of the people serving as councillors wanted to do their best for their community. They just had very different ideas about what that meant.
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