The anger came as the Lake County Commission considered a proposal, which ultimately got unanimous approval, to rename a stretch of road as the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway.
The majority of public commenters at the Tuesday meeting opposed the plan, including resident Gavin Brown, who argued the county should name roads after local figures who had served the community like veterans or law enforcement, such as Bradley Link, a sheriff’s deputy who was killed last year.
“Wouldn’t it be more suitable and ideal to have a memorial to honor someone who fought to serve and protect us, have a true Lake County resident who was a brave American hero?” Brown said.
That’s exactly how representative democracy works: people might be against but decision is made by “elected officials” who couldn’t care less about some “common folk” opinion.
At least at the local level, the only reason it shakes out that way is because the common folk haven’t really been paying all that much attention to what the elected officials are doing, as long as they had an R after their names. At the national level there is additional fuckery, but these are exactly the people they voted for, you can’t exactly blame that on the system. It’s a problem of education and of apathy.
I feel like, after all the long decades of fuckery, this might be the year that they wake up about it because it is finally impacting them directly in a fashion that can’t be explained away. Maybe not but I definitely feel like that is possible.
I’ve given up most hope that Anyone “wakes up.” They’ve had many more reasons before now but still did fuck all.
I’d love to be proven wrong.
What have you done?
Sadly, I think we all underestimated just how many people there are in this country that actually desperately want the fuckery. They think it helps them. They think they’re “winning”. I keep thinking they’ll realize, at some point, that it does the opposite. It hasn’t happened yet.
Take a look at those Republican town hall videos though. They definitely have realized, at least some of them. I think it’s mostly just a question of whether it will translate into anything, or whether they’ll just settle back down and get back in their place.
A lot of them even if they realize they made a terrible mistake will still vote R anyways because they have been taught anything else is terrible through propoganda. “I guess this bad is what was bound to happen, at least fascism is slowing it”… While accelerating the decline into the very few ultra rich people, and the rest in poverty.
Anything done can be undone. Any evil once defeated can rise again, and vice versa.