Why do people not care about local politics, yet care so much

My local politics are affected solely by national politics.

I.e. Usage of solar power in the state of Nevada. We live in a rain shadow, aka a place where there is never any clouds and the reason why Vegas sits in the middle of a desert. Fun fact: Vegas and Pahrump don't get their power from the Hoover Dam. They get it from coal power plants. The top-of-the-chain owners of the power companies have their hand in the law, and have made using solar power a pain in the ass. We could save money, increase land value, and save the environment with one swift move. But there's one problem:
Lobbyists and the establishment. Hence we need someone to give those guys the boot (and I'm not gonna suck Trump's dick here, he hasn't done shit in regards to that as of /yet/). Lobbyists are gone, corrupt media disappears, appropriate companies from out-of-state get funding and move over, and ban, problem solved. Issue is, that's way over our heads, and you're not wrong. So nothing will ever happen. He national level of politics is the only battleground worth fighting, if anything is worth fighting for at all.

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>>38427658
>caring about politics at all
It's not going to change anything, locally or otherwise.
It's up to the corporations and large businesses, and their owners, to change something since it is quite apparent that they have a significant influence on laws and what not.
The chance to change something (without using extreme force like physical violence, which would basically be terrorism) in any politics is quite low, so why bother?

>>38427658
>local politics is something you can actually have an impact on
>he actually believes this