I just finished reading the longest piece of drivel (NPS, State & Gateway Meeting) since sifting through the recent emergency special session and listening to the drivel coming out of the mouths of your elected representatives.
Drivel is slang for: “childish, silly or meaningless talk or thinking: nonsense; twaddle.”
If you believe they love their teachers, ask a teacher what their job has become.
If you believe they care about your family, ask them about their plan for health care.
If you believe they support the democratic process, ask them to explain their assault on Proposition 4 and hiring out of state people to lie to you about their petition to undo fair maps.
If you believe they plan on keeping public lands in public hands, ask them how they plan on paying for them when the federal government hasn’t supported those lands for decades, just fired most of the employees, and plans on defunding them so the states can claim they can do a better job.
A better job at what? Paving roads? Last time I checked, paving roads cost a lot of money.
These elected officials are not serious players. They pass laws and resolutions based on disinformation and then tell you what they want you to believe. And they spend your money to do that.
When someone tells you who they are the first time, believe them.
Not all your elected representatives started out corrupt. But some have become corrupt.
If even a portion of unregistered voters in Utah registered to vote and then voted, it would make a difference to the future of public schools, public health, public lands and our democratic process.
Carey Dabney, Moab
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