To the editor:

Rural America today is a lot like Jesus’ rural Galilean place of upbringing. In Galilee, everything was simple, uniform, and backward. Complex, varied, or new policies were not welcome. Then, there was pushback against measures to deal with the Roman occupation and attendant mental health disorders. Today, measures to deal with a communicable disease crisis.

Truckers jammed on the border bridge from Detroit to Canada, in down-town Ottawa, and possibly soon in American cities, have this same hay-seed mentality. One trucker opined, “Government needs to stop mandating things.” In rural areas, and on the road, there aren’t many rules, except the few that folks are already comfortable with.

This new trucker philosophy cannot be found in any legitimate Bill of Rights anywhere in the world. It can only be found in an anarchist’s bill of pretend rights. White, anti-vax, working class protestors are being used by the Republican party in America and the Conservative party in Canada to overturn rule of law by the majority and establish arbitrary rule by the 1% class.

Rural America and truckers have long been tools of the wealthy, so nothing new.