Neighbors,
I have not decided to resurrect the Selinsgrove Concerned Citizens page… yet.
Several months ago I had walked away from managing the page. I felt it had run its course and I moved on to new adventures. But, during that time our community saw the overt corruption, governmental frauds, and nepotism sky rocket. Quite literally several hundreds of thousands of dollars intended for the poor were converted into a tidy pay-day for the well connected.
In August God told me to jump, put my name on the ballot as a protest option for those who couldn’t stomach the vapid candidates who sought to install themselves into power. Doing no campaigning, no signage, and even being a bit hostile towards the entire process there were still plenty of people willing to “waste their vote” on me rather than contribute to the problem.
And, so I sit here 24 hours after watching an inebriated downtown business owner defend the open secret of our well-connected local elites’ habit of drinking and driving; multiple people asking me if I am bringing the page back… and I am torn. There is still so much to be done in Selinsgrove, but, I struggle to find any more heart to care.
As of right now Selinsgrove is headed no where good. You can check the comments section of the video I posted earlier today and see the word-vomit that comes in response to daring to question the worst elements of our community. The sheer vitriol elbow-rubbers desperate to be seen being seen are willing to engage in to defend and deflect from the problems we all know exist.
There is an arrogance problem in Selinsgrove. It has made more money disappear than most of us will ever see. Its fluffed the egos of the self-appointed to the level that they are willing to exploit police badges to silence criticism, lie under oath, and hide as much as possible from the tax-payers.
But, the real question is: Should I still care? I have done all I can for Selinsgrove. I have quite literally put my name, reputation, and body on the line. I have directly confronted the bullies and thugs not for the cheers and applause but because it is the right thing to do. Someone needs to be the critic, and I have been happy to play that role out of love for what my community once was… but I am fearful of what we are becoming.
Selinsgrove is on the path to becoming Shamokin. This is not to say great people don’t live in Shamokin, but rather that those great people are open about their community’s ever worsening situation with barely a candle at the end of the tunnel. Hope is what keeps people going and Selinsgrove is rapidly losing hope.
I once promised my neighbors, you all even my haters, everything I had to fight for you. I have given that and I would not be remorseful that there was more I could have done. But I still feel this tug that I can not leave you to be devoured by the profiteering wolves huffing and puffing to break their way through.
Our nation is struggling with a conversation about the level of overt corruption in what is supposed to be our representative government; a system that is supposed to work for us not simple use us. The answer to that question is, and has always been, to start the fix on a local level.
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