“You’re unskilled bureaucrats. Stay in your lane.”

This is why American democracy works. Not because of the bullshit that fills the airwaves in Washington D.C., based on the bullshit that happens in The Halls Of Power there, but because of what happens locally around the fifty states.

Bethany Mandel, a journalist who has written for the likes of the NYT, had finally had enough of the mandate bullshit from her local Council Health Board in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Watch and enjoy as a Friday night aperitif.

My testimony at the @MoCoCouncilMD about their proposed vaccine passports. Join us in making change here #ReviveMoCo: https://t.co/HCydcxbjPJ pic.twitter.com/sr5jk1fjcY

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) January 18, 2022

Oh, if only the likes of the Auckland and Wellington City Councils faced people like this.