People choose political issues they judge close and doable.

Evidence

All six members present agreed: It's close to home,'' and do-able.” One said that, compared to nuclear issues,“this (the drug) issue’s a lot closer to home.” — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes efficacy and ‘think global, act local’ dynamics; dovetails with psychological theories of perceived behavioral control. — connects to: People can absorb political problems into purely personal solutions — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1075; Strategic equivocation on divisive issues can hold an electoral coalition together. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 212
• QUESTION: What makes nuclear battleships feel ‘less close to home’ than drugs, given they are physically closer? Worth chasing the underlying frame.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 22

Related

• Proximity to danger does not make people politically active. (similarity 0.82)
• People can absorb political problems into purely personal solutions (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• People can absorb political problems into purely personal solutions #expands (0.85) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1075