Anderson: Vote like your garbage pickup or scenic view is on the line R. Bruce Anderson “All politics is local.” The phrase is often attributed to Tip O’Neill, but I’ve always thought he ripped it off. Probably from Socrates – or, more likely, from that old reprobate, Alcibiades, who talked his hometown into invading Sicily on a pirate expedition in the midst of the Peloponnesian war. See, Athens had been at war with Sparta, and after a grueling, brutal, 10-year spate of violence, they’d arrived at a tenuous peace. But Athens had a fully functional navy, lots of soldiers and sailors, and there was this place, see, rich, and not that far…