Never Fear...Evelyn's Here

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "What's Up Doc":

This is like shooting fish in a barrel. But a shiver of doubt drifts to the surface. Is it OK to become a part-time bully if your excuse is to take out full-time bullies ?

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Nobody is being shot. Vigorous opinion  is being expressed on a political issue.We do that too in Aurora.  It's part of what makes  the community  real. One could say without risk of contradiction, it's part of Aurora's culture.

I've been doing it for half a century. Not myself alone. A succession of Aurora residents have put pen to paper and sent brusque letters to the editor expounding on every idea that beset them for more years than I can remember.

The difference  now is modern technology. It  makes communication and publication possible in an instant.

It  allows free exchange  without risking friendships, clients or jobs.  
It might better if people  identified themselves. But they don't and that's O.K.  It's better than labouring under the delusion  people don't care.

When jet flights were invented. The world became a smaller place. Distance became  a  question  of time.

When  the internet was developed, the community shrank to a keyboard and  monitor. It continues to evolve.

Tell people  what's going on, about taxes,  fairness,  being open and sensible, then we discover how much  people  care. They will talk  and they will  demand and when the moment arrives they will act.

I have never personally experienced a moment of fear in Aurora. I've been elected and I've been defeated. Being elected is better. But I've never been afraid to risk being defeated. I never had to pretend to be something I am not.