So my representative in Congress, Congressman Stephen Fincher, has a Facebook page. I thought it might be a good place to tell him how I feel about the government shutdown and how it is affecting me personally. So I posted that I was a veteran who depends on his monthly VA benefits and that he should support a clean CR to get the government running again since, as it stands now, I probably won’t be getting paid next month. When I checked his page this morning, I found that my post has been deleted and I can no longer leave comments on his page. This appears to only affect me because he has a lot of supporters constantly leaving comments to "hold the line" and "don’t give in." I guess I should have expected this, given what is happening in DC right now, but I am still a bit dumbfounded that an elected representative of the people would blatantly attempt to silence the people who he represents if they don’t see eye to eye with him. I don’t care where you stand on the Affordable Care Act, but people should know that blocking public discourse on issues is about as un-democratic and un-American as you can get.
