Election Day Aphorism

Last week I was walking with an old friend who has been going through a difficult phase in life.
Among other things, we discussed politics and how this friend, who was once very active politically, is no longer so.
I asked why, trying to find a possible connection between previous involvement and a general state of well being, and non-involvement and depression. In response, my friend said that a epiphany came connecting a disconnect with internal needs and too much connection with local needs. With that realization, my friend left the political spectrum and began to focus those energies into internal healing.
And today is provincial election day. In spite of the general tone of this post, I will vote. More so for the referendum than for any actual candidate. I am registered in a riding with a very strong incumbent who has not experienced any recent scandals of magnitude that would lessen his current grip on the area.
There are only two sources of political thought that have any true import: internal and global. All other measurements of locality: municipal, provincial/regional/state, federal are only stepping stones on our own paths to making things right.
Nietzsche once said something to the effect that the infinitely small is just as hard to grasp as the infinitely large. Maybe that's why we tend to ignore the real importance of our true political feelings and spend so much time on the more graspable regional stuff.
Then again, I am a a middle child, striving to contain myself.