If it feels like Oklahoma is turning back the clock on its culture, that’s because it is.
Even if conservatives want to argue that a liberal society has gone too far in its embrace of diverse social norms and mores, they’d be hard pressed to explain how reducing penalties for a cruel practice such as cockfighting is “making America great again.”
Enter Rep. Justin “J.J.” Humphrey (R-Lane). Yeah, we had to look it up too. Lane is an unincorporated area between Antlers and Atoka in the southeastern part of the state. Readers will surely be surprised to learn that this piece of legislation came from an area that boasted a population of 414 people in the 2010 census.
But that’s the whole issue, isn’t it? The people in the civilized areas of the state, meaning both cities where people want to live and whose traditions don’t reflect a time in this country where Black people had to drink from separate water fountains, are being dragged backwards in time by callous troglodytes dragging their knuckles forward through it.
The practice was made a felony through a ballot initiative petition two decades ago, and as we’ve seen by this current class of “small government” legislators, they’ve decided that it’s their small government who knows what’s best, not individuals voting directly on subjects (which they’re so terrified of facing that they continue to chip away at the process session by session).
It’s really a wonder that serious businesses continue to pass Oklahoma by when you have a state lawmaker passing around buttons at the Capitol that read, “My cock, my choice.”
