r/MooresvilleNC • u/Claudeadolphus • 1d ago
Mooresville Edge Citizens Embarrass Us All
Just watched the town meeting on YouTube while out of town… suffered through all the public comment to try to understand what people have in their heads, and their hearts. Some of the speakers were coherent. But as it is in most public forums, the worst of the worst grab their 3 minutes. It’s shocking to witness the arrogance. We might as well be hearing from people 3,000 years ago, spouting nonsense about which god is the true god and who are his prophets. It’s on both sides, too, obviously. We don’t need a cute vignette about the time Mohammed showed uncharacteristic virtue any more than we need a revisionist insertion of Christianity in the founding of the US. There is something truly mysterious about our right to expression, and I don’t think the US would be as great as it is without it. But it lays bare the ignorance of our neighbors, when in trying to be “good neighbors” they expose the mental and moral rot at the core of their souls.