Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
Today, March 2, we here in Texas recognize our Independence Day. So it’s distressing to hear loud voices wishing we could return to oppression. I think we have become numb to the luxury of freedom that comes with being an American, a Texan.
We think that we would be better served by an authoritarian form of governance. We seem to believe that that form of government would never turn its eye to us, because we are the ‘right kind of people’ that would never be turned against.
In the last few days we’ve watched a simple act of putting flowers on a grave become a symbol of political defiance. Defiance by a citizenry who knows what it’s like to live under an authoritarian form of government. Where one of their own gave their all to try and help the people achieve a form of government that we in the US now seem to think is irrelevant…because we have never lived under true oppression since we in America, and in Texas, fought revolutions.
We’re spoiled. And oblivious to the dangers of the things we have been led to believe are preferable to the freedoms we take for granted.
So think about this as we whine about our lousy country…
“A woman at Navalny’s funeral compared Navalny and Putin. “One sacrificed himself to save the country, the other one sacrificed the country to save himself.”
Maybe we don’t deserve democracy after all.
