DISSENT: The foundation of progress
At the town hall on Saturday, Feb. 22, the KCRCC’s bully-in-chief Ed Bejarana, said the quiet part out loud: “Your voice is meaningless.” That sentiment has become the foundation of the KCRCC’s echo chamber, where dissent is not only unwelcome — it is silenced by unidentified thugs in black shirts.
We see the same authoritarian mindset on display at the Community Library Network. Trustee Ambrosetti lectures patrons on representative government, implying that legislators dictate the will of the people and that dissent is somehow unpatriotic. Trustee Hanley dismisses opposing views with a flippant, “Suck it up and deal with it” (see the Feb. 20 meeting).
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