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Sunday, April 23rd, 2023

In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself

Author:     Gree Jaffe and Patrick Marley
Source:     The Washington Post
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Link: In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself
Stephan:  

Here you can see clearly what happens when a county shifts from Democratic rational wellbeing oriented governance to Republican MAGAt governance. Republican governance, and I say this on the basis of objectively verifiable social outcome data, is always inferior. It creates fear, resentment, division, and governance based on ideology not facts. It is a worldview stoked to the point of violence by Fox and the other MAGAt media outlets, and it is destroying America. 

MAGAt Walter Davis yells “antifa!” as he exits an Ottawa County board meeting after publicly speaking in January.
Credit: Evan Cobb / The Washington Post

WEST OLIVE, MICHIGAN — The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners had run for office promising to “thwart tyranny” in their lakeside Michigan community of 300,000 people.

In this case the oppressive force they aimed to thwart was the county government they now ran. It was early January, their first day in charge. An American flag held down a spot at the front of the board’s windowless meeting room. Sea-foam green carpet covered the floor.

The new commissioners, all Republicans, swore their oaths of office on family Bibles. And then the firings began. Gone wasthe lawyer who had represented Ottawa County for 40 years. Gone was the county administrator who oversaw a staff of 1,800. To run the health department, they voted to install a service manager from a local HVAC company who had gained prominence as a critic of mask mandates.

As the session entered its fourth hour, Sylvia […]

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2 Comments

  1. Kenneth Weene on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 11:21 am

    Reconstuctionist Christians as the greatest threat to America in decades, perhaps ever.

  2. Rev. Dean on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 2:04 pm

    What kind of a county board would not allow children to be Masked to prevent the Covid-virus? That would be an insane move, typical of Republicans.