Elbert County Republicans who are in leadership positions do not understand what the word "diversity" means. They completely understand that they are in the majority here in Elbert County, but they confuse the notion of "majority party" to mean domination by election. In short, if you do not have a an active membership in the Republican party, shut up. Pretty simple, really.
Fifty-five percent of the registered voters in Elbert County are Republican. That number surprises many of the Republicans more than anyone else. If, out of the blue, you ask Elbert Republicans what fraction of registered Elbert citizens are registered as Republican, they will generally respond with somewhere between 2/3's to 3/4 in favor of the GOP and then give the lion's share of what remains to the Independents. The Democrats are generally not a part of this little exchange. The forty-five percent of the registered voters in Elbert who are not Republicans are a mere six percentage points away from being in the majority. Interesting.
Why do I bring this up? The answer is pretty obvious. The BOCC just finished appointing all of its new members to the planning commission and every single one of them is a Republican. No Independents. No Democrats. Did you know that only Republicans are capable of making long lasting decisions for Elbert County? And, as if that was not enough of an insult to the other forty-five percent of the residents, Grant Thayer announced that, because the BOCC selected a Republican who lives in the southern panhandle of the county, the board has now achieved diversity. Can I get a woot! woot!? I just knew we had it in us to jump on board that diversity train!
Can anyone reading this picture any Republican who has been a commissioner in the last ten years or so going home and listening to a crying granddaughter who reveals to her family that she can't be on the cheerleading squad or in the science club or on the debate team because she is in some sort of a forty-five percent minority at her school? She informs them that they won't even take her application, and even if they were to take it would have to undergo a special double secret handshake special review. I know what would happen and so do you. All hell would break loose. Ain't nobody gonna treat my granddaughter like she's a second class citizen. Nobody! They would start passing out the torches and pitchforks as they made their way to the schoolhouse.
But of course things are different out here in Elbert County. Anybody who complains is immediately marginalized as being anti-American, a leftist, a libtard, a socialist or even the dreaded snowflake. Lefties are portrayed as fragile and weak. Their arguments will be dismissed because after all, this behavior is just them being sore losers. Somebody will announce that every lame progressive needs a ribbon or a trophy to be happy. Another will explain that Democrats and Independents are an annoyance at best. It will be pointed out that anyone who doesn't have Republican values actually hates everything. It will be decided that the 45% who are not in power are just a bunch of people who feel obligated to waste the time of decent Republican voters. Of course, the name callers will fail to realize that these people are not backing down, not shutting up, not showing fear and certainly not melting like snowflakes.
Nationally these darned liberals significantly outnumber conservatives and they are not about to make the same mistake they did in this last election. Oh sure, they will remain in the minority in Elbert County, but they will not be ignored. That is because just like those people on the right, they will stand up for their rights.
Let me give this BOCC a piece of advice that they will most likely never use or even understand: If you work hand-in-hand with people of differing mindsets you are made stronger. Dissidence disappears. Lawsuits designed to force compliance with state laws and regulations disappear. Money is saved. Granddaughters go on to become the head of the debate team. And, much to everyone's surprise, people get along and communities thrive.
If you continue to skirt the rules and continue to try and bury the truth about your performance from the public, you will just keep getting hammered in the courts because that is the only recourse left for the disenfranchised who refuse to be ignored. The day will come when, due to the demographics of our population centers and our lack of infrastructure, the political leanings of the population will begin to move to the left. The Independents and the Democrats are only behind by a a slight and a decreasing margin and President Trump is hurting the political brand of the G.O.P. Isn't time to start trying to pull together instead of pulling apart?
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