they shouldn’t get to vote in local elections

For a long time I assumed this was a rule. Figured, I’m not from here why would I have a say.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize I’m not really from anywhere anymore. I think I visited my hometown maybe once in the last decade. Didn’t really feel that comfortable weighing in on local politics as a student in a college/university town/city. I still voted on national stuff (not that it did any good), but at this stage I struggle even to think of myself as American. It’s not a country where me or people like me have had any influence or agency. It’s not my country it’s their country, the oligarchs. Feels like there’s no place where I belong, and any push for my views is just interfering in other people’s business.

It creates a bit of a paradox since (broadly speaking) it’s good when people don’t push their views onto others, yet in this case that’s creating a terrible selection bias. I still don’t know if there’s a good solution to this. I don’t want to vote where I don’t understand the situations and won’t fully face the consequences. Yet, I don’t want society to crush me out of negligence either.