So why did the Board of Supervisors call for special meeting earlier this week with less than 24 hours notice? Was there some reason it couldn’t have waited until their regular July 6th meeting?
Was it really to “discuss broadband services in Louisa County with Rappahannock Electrical Cooperative?” Since their own minutes, show the county had yet to respond to several letters REC sent to the county asking for a timely response to several questions, which as far as I can tell were never answered.
What happened was not a simple disagreement between the county and service provider, it’s was a situation where “there’s something happening here, but what it is ain’t exactly clear.” What is clear is that people are rejecting the board’s ideas.
They are tired of a government that is only interested in being the enforcers of crony capitalism. Where the inequality, and lack of opportunity we see today, is all about sustaining the structures of power. A situation not unlike the root causes behind the Black Lives Matters protests. And like BLM, the people of this county have lost faith in a government that doesn’t promote the common good.
The key to any successful social change is to discredit the ideas used to prop up the ruling class with alternative ideas and language. Once the old vocabulary looses it’s currency, the power elite are finished. Opening the way for voters to dismiss their minions and demand a government independent of, and not subservient to corporate power.
Of course people are free to think like Dan Braswell and dismiss these words as “inappropriate” and “delete them” from their minds, or they could say “It’s time we stop, Hey what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down.”
Jon Taylor
Originally published in the Central Virginian and published here with the permission of the author.
