Intelligent design is usually an expression attributed to creation – “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” God, the creator, created with intelligence. In today’s Democratic Party, intelligent design is missing in its platform. Democrats are adrift and divided, still arguing on why they lost the last election. If the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were composed of regular people, they would understand.
Progressives are running the national party and many state parties. They are the intelligent ones and we the people are subjects. If they really were intelligent, they would realize their losses are due to the voters’ reaction to a progressive agenda and the fact the DNC/Biden insiders chose a woman, Kamala Harris, who had never won a single presidential primary vote, never accomplished much as vice president, and ran a joy campaign full of giggles and void of policy. The “intelligent ones” thought they could hoodwink the voters into believing Trump was a fascist dictator. Even Democratic voters knew better.
At large, Democratic voters do not want centralized, micromanaged government, pushed by progressives. People want opportunity to succeed, without government dictates, like those that shackled and shuttered many businesses during the COVID years. Thank , Dr. Fauci and Governor MLG. Now that we survived and the COVID fear is mostly behind us, we still see people wearing masks in public, even driving alone.
The COVID dictates may have induced progressive paranoia to some, but this type of control is what the current DNC leadership is unwilling to disown. To progressives, government and power are indistinguishable.
In New Mexico, this same progressive agenda is keeping us behind in child welfare, education, earning ability, and access to medical care. It has created a welfare mentality within the able-bodied population that keeps people underemployed so as to remain on Medicaid.
Some workers even refuse to work, unless they are paid cash to keep them below the Medicaid threshold. Our Democratic, progressive politicians are blaming the Trump administration for Medicaid income adjustments for the able-bodied.
The former owner of the Rio Grande SUN recently wrote an editorial for the Albuquerque Journal where he pointed out how the good citizens of Rio Arriba County have continually elected politicians based on family and friendship and not qualifications.
A past Rio Arriba patron, Emilio Naranjo, told a friend of mine, who complained about failing schools, “I don’t want educated people in my county.”
Intelligent design? Maybe for the politician who wants the power.
Española Mayor John Ramon Vigil, who has been accused of sexual assault by a city employee, has been asked by seven of eight city councilors to either step down from mayoral duties until cleared or resign so the mayor pro tem, Peggy Sue Martinez, can continue conducting city business without the shadow of unauthorized authority that follows the accusation of sexual assault. Thus far, Vigil has refused all requests and has not been charged with a crime.
According to a news article in the Rio Grande SUN, former city manager Eric Lujan, who was present at the dinner where the alleged sexual assault occurred, corroborated the victim’s statement during an interview he had with police. Lujan was dismissed from his city manager’s job in May, but was appointed the city’s special project coordinator at his manager’s salary of $109,000. Vigil declined to comment and Lujan cannot disclose the conditions of his separation and must say it was voluntary.
In February, a video surfaced of Vigil and another man throwing shopping carts in Lujan’s parking place. I am not sure what to make of all this. I do know it is more about power and adolescent behavior than intelligent design.
Does it reflect on the voters of Española and Rio Arriba? You bet it does. Surely, we can do better.
Tom Wright is an El Rito Media investor.º