The anger came as the Lake County Commission considered a proposal, which ultimately got unanimous approval, to rename a stretch of road as the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway.
The majority of public commenters at the Tuesday meeting opposed the plan, including resident Gavin Brown, who argued the county should name roads after local figures who had served the community like veterans or law enforcement, such as Bradley Link, a sheriff’s deputy who was killed last year.
“Wouldn’t it be more suitable and ideal to have a memorial to honor someone who fought to serve and protect us, have a true Lake County resident who was a brave American hero?” Brown said.
At least at the local level, the only reason it shakes out that way is because the common folk haven't really been paying all that much attention to what the elected officials are doing, as long as they had an R after their names. At the national level there is additional fuckery, but these are exactly the people they voted for, you can't exactly blame that on the system. It's a problem of education and of apathy.
I feel like, after all the long decades of fuckery, this might be the year that they wake up about it because it is finally impacting them directly in a fashion that can't be explained away. Maybe not but I definitely feel like that is possible.