MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR - Kenny Fogle

I will admit that it is getting hard to be a Democrat in Kentucky and Nelson County these days and for the life of me, I cannot understand why. The Democratic Party is the Party of Science, the Party of Human Rights, the Party of Labor, and the Party of Social Justice.  We are the Party that fights for the hungry, the homeless, the unemployed and for Public School education for our children.  In short, the Democratic Party is there for you.

If you read the papers or watch the news, we get attacked a lot for a variety of reasons.  We are certainly not perfect in all we do and not all Democrats agree on everything and how we should address problems of the day.  But, you cannot ever say that we do not care for people, whether they are the immigrants that are coming across our border, people facing tyrannical dictators in their countries or people suffering from emotional and mental issues. 

Ask yourself:  Do you believe in Science? Do you believe that human action has hastened a Climate Change that is affecting our weather, our water supply, and the quality of the air we breathe?

Ask yourself: Should we practice gun safety, educate and train people on how to use weapons, assure that these people are not criminals or have other emotional issues before granting them a license to own a gun and simply apply harsh penalties to people who abuse this right?

Ask yourself: Do you believe in equal treatment of all people, regardless of the color of their skin, their gender or their nationality? Do you also understand that the discrimination in the past of certain people will take some time to heal as our system of government slowly adapts to new ways of thinking? Do you also agree that our history is not always rosy and something to be proud of?  We have had some great leaders, we have had tremendous victories in the United States in these past 250 years but we have had many horrible chapters to acknowledge.  The treatment of Native Americans who were here before most of our ancestors, the importation and cruel treatment towards black people in our Slave years, and the second class citizen classification for women for our first 140 plus years.  Still to this day, many Native Americans live in poverty on reservations, descendants of Slaves still face discrimination in numerous ways by our government and society and women still do not get equal pay for equal work in corporate America.

Democrats are fighting every day to make things right.  We are there for public school educators, we are there for hard working Americans who have but one thing to offer and that is their labor.  Should not your labor be worth as much as the expensive equipment used by us?  Ask yourself:  What are you worth to your employer and who is it that is fighting for you? Democrats.

Finally, ask yourself:  Is there such a thing as too much liberty? Should you ever be asked to sacrifice something for personal security?  Should your moral views of life lead you to take away the liberty of someone else, whether it be to prohibit a woman’s choice to have an abortion or to mandate someone’s choice not to be vaccinated or wear a mask and potentially cause someone else harm by spreading a deadly virus?  Personal liberty is where your choice ends and mine begins.

All these questions can help you to choose wisely where you belong.  I am firmly a Democrat, not because I agree with everything the Party stands for, I do not.  It is because the Democratic Party cares about humanity. Wealthy people can get by just fine without our help. Democrats stand for People who need help at times and people who can band together simply to have a voice in America.