On the Verge of Implosion
<p>The trouble, if not chaos, was furthered with Covid-19 that isolated people from one another in a town in which everyone knew everybody and met with one another daily. Nonetheless, The Times dates April 7, 2020 as the time when the town stared coming apart. It’s when a young Progressive New York Lawyer, named Shane Fuhrman, who grew up in Colorado, beat the town’s longtime Fire Chief, Gilbert Archuleta, by a mere 10 votes to become Mayor of Silverton. It wasn’t helped by the fact that 14 months into Fuhrman’s tenure, he declared that the Town Council would stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance until further notice. He initiated the action because he was concerned about a Town Trustee who had received Threats for not participating in the Pledge. It certainly wasn’t helped that news of the cancellation of the Pledge was leaked to Fox News. Even though the person who was responsible for the leak later apologized for it and the damage it caused, the Harm was done.</p>
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