LGBTQ people are in a lot of places, even, by God, in Jefferson County West Virginia. They are a fact of life and they contribute to the health of the county, even if much of what they do in goes unnoticed or unremarked. They are the products of human evolutionary diversity and the rights they have struggled to get are now under threat. Democrats counter those threats and support the rights of LGBTQ people to be who they are.
The Democratic losses in the 2024 election were disappointing, of course. On the local an state level all of our Republican legislators, the only kind of legislators we have, all supported policies that are going to weaken our communities and make live harder for many of our citizens. We want to make sure in future elections that we understand the down side of Republican positions and vote for candidates that support building community, not tearing it down.
We locally here in Jefferson County and in the state are overrepresented by Republicans. In this kind of one-party system of governing, the party in power can (and does) essentially ignore the wishes of the voters. They vote in laws that serve at best only those who voted for them, leaving unheard and unrepresented those who did not vote for them. Often one-party control also means that the legislators obey only those special interests that financed their campaigns, One-party rule isn’t just unfair, it leaves potentially good ideas on the floor and doesn’t best serve communities.