I just wanted to take a quick moment to talk about what's going on with the West Virginia legislative session.
Aside from the specific bad bills that are targeting this minority group, or that minority group, or that marginalized group of people, or solving problems that don't exist, or shortening our earned benefits by making our unemployment benefit period shorter.
All of these things, what it broadly comes down to, is dividing us up and making us fight among ourselves and keeping people more and more desperate because people who are divided and desperate generally are unable to negotiate better contract terms for themselves at the workplace.
And more importantly, as far as the majority party in the WV Legislature is concerned: desperate and divided people don't participate in the civic process.
Desperate and divided people don't vote as often.
Desperate and divided people don't get civically engaged.
Desperate and divided people don't call their legislators.
What they are trying to convince us of is that there is nothing that we can do to improve our situation as communities or as a state.
They want us to believe that every single thing is on each of us as an individual.
And they want us to ignore the fact -- that they want us to believe that the original United States motto is "In God We Trust," when in fact it was "E Pluribus Unum!"
Out of many, one.
And they want us to miss the fact that when we stand together, we can do anything.
And that's what this legislative session is about: trying to make us forget our own power!
Troy N. Miller
Democratic Candidate, WV House of Delegates District 98
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