I think what we’re seeing is a very rapid shift in power-that-counts from the generally wealthy to the generally young. Of course, many people act like dicks in both scenarios.
I was wondering why the commissioners were refusing to close the beaches when the decision would surely be out of their hands soon, but I suppose that they still wanted to show who’s boss.
I think it had more to do with him being the only one who seemed to care about what was happening while the others prefered to pretend it was business as usual, finish the meeting and go home. Nobody elected them to deal with a pandemic.
This is kind of why local government fails when it acquires too much power. Kind of makes you want to run for office, right? It shouldn’t be too hard to do a better job than mayor “her words make my ears bleed” triolo. What a terrible person.