Thank you, Ten Bears for sharing this video so I could post it. What I want every one to understand is something the news reporters and the station buried. The people upset and demanding this huge change … are only 20% of the population. Now I listened to it three times and I couldn’t decide if they were saying the people in the county or the rural people in the country. To me it sounded like country wide the rural people were demanding and were 20% of the population. Which sounds right if you look at population maps. Do you understand what that is? A small minority is demanding the entire country abandon its progressive move forward into the modern age so a small segment of the population can be satisfied and happy. It is minority rule over the majority. It is not democracy! It is what the fundamentalist Christians are trying to do right now to every red state on LGBTQ+ issues. Are we as a country going to allow the most violent vocal segments of our society force us back to a regressive past that will eventually destroy what the US really is and could be? Hugs. Scottie
Division in Oregon highlights growing political rift between rural and urban areas
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This is one of the dangers Democracies have to be aware of.
A democracy is a mix of views, and rarely are they simple two-way splits they are coalitions of coalitions working to be heard.
At their best you normally have consensus and that much maligned deal-making working something out.
The danger lies when a loud minority gain traction by working the system; at its most current extreme we can see that in Israel where the religious right hold sway.
It is a sobering notion that the Nazis in Germany did not initially ‘seize’ power they won seats in the parliament through the ballot box and then worked from within.
This is why it is essential that folk vote; the extremists will, every time.
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Hi Roger. Very true. The danger of minority groups working together to overrule the will of the majority is playing out in a lot of places in the US. The fundamentalist Christians banding together with right wing anti-LGBTQ+ groups. The religious groups banded with gang thugs to be the enforcers of hate against anyone not following the 1950s society model. Two small marginalized groups banded together to take over school boards so they could enforce an anti-LGBTQ+ pro Christianity agenda on the kids. Hugs. Scottie
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And with no respect for each other either, only united in Hate and Ignorance.
May they plague each other.
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