I’m not saying this to brag, but today I was on the phone, not only with citizen activists, but officials from the city, the school district and Minnehaha County discussing ideas and solutions. I have also had countless conversations with state legislators in the past couple of days.
I could never imagine a ‘hobby’ I took on 13 years ago would flourish into something where elected leaders would ask me for advice on how to solve these problems. I don’t have all the answers, but I think our conversations help root out the bad ideas. For this I am grateful.
I am honored to call some these people my friends, who appreciate my opinion, but often disagree.
I have often been of the opinion that this line in the 1st Amendment is the most important to the survival of a free society;
” . . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I want to remind people you have a voice, you don’t need to run a blog or a controversial FB page to make yourself heard. You just have to speak out.
I won an online contest about a decade ago with this line about freedom of speech;
“Freedom is FREE. SPEAK OUT!”
I still believe it.
We will never survive if we don’t embrace our liberties. We can crush greed with the truth. This is really what the virus is about, revealing how as a human society we have lost our way and become to comfortable. We must always be vigilant. My favorite philosopher said it best;
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little” – Plato