The Cameron County Democratic Women’s group expresses a big thank-you to the progressive voters for saving our nation’s democracy by showing up for the midterm election, thereby rebuking the conservative red wave kicking it soundly to the curb.
More than 9 million registered voters in Texas did not vote in the midterms. Voting apathy allows others to dictate how you live your life. Too many conservative candidates today seek to further oppress our rights to bodily autonomy along with our voting rights. We resist!
The CCDW applauds the Rio Grande Valley progressive voting youth and all other Democrats for participating in the election process returning Congressional District 34 to blue. Additionally, we thank the Democratic volunteers of Cameron County who worked tirelessly to get out the vote.
Please note Republicans now seek to increase the voting age to 21, because they see our progressive youth as a threat to their Republican conservative and religious ideologies. Texas Republicans can gerrymander the lines and try to change the rules, but they cannot stop the seeds of Democracy from sprouting and growing stronger every day.
The future is yours. Keep fighting for it. Please continue to show up at the polls in every election. Your votes do matter. Thank you again!
Teresa Saldivar
CCDW president
Los Fresnos
Synod
crisis
Phyllis Zagano has an article in the National Catholic Reporter titled: “Can Pope Francis survive the scheming of ‘the schismatics’?”
She states how the Synod can mean nothing “… if a national conference of bishops, individual bishops, or pastors ignore the whole idea.” In the U.S. Church to be sure some individual bishops and pastors have ignored or at least made light of the whole idea. Brownsville Bishop Daniel Flores was charged with summarizing the findings of the dioceses in the United States.
Sadly, I believe resistance to the Synod present in this quote is also present in the Diocese of Brownsville. I believe this description also describes one or more priests of the Brownsville Diocese: “ Some of them believe that if they ignore the synodal process, they will be able to recover the past. They are the clerics who prefer the fiddle-back vestments and Latin Masses of their real or imagined pasts. They want women kept out of the sanctuary. They want lay people kept in their place.
These men simply hope the synod will go away. They may have paid it lip service, with secret invitation-only synod meetings and perfunctory reports. They may have thought they only had a year or so until a new pontificate would erase all this business about consulting the laity. Her response: “They are wrong.”
I thank God daily that the synod process is working in the Universal Church.
David Jackson
Edinburg
‘Far right’ tag
spurs complaint
Will someone please explain what “far right” means? Also, a few examples of “far right” behavior would help.
It may be coincidence, but I can’t recall ever seeing a headline proclaiming something to be “far left.” I wonder why that is.
Bill Young
Brownsville
Editor’s note: The terms date to the French Revolution, when pro-monarch conservatives positioned themselves to the right of the National Assembly’s presiding officer. The pro-democracy liberals assembled to the left. “Leftist” and similar words commonly refer to political liberals.
