And you are condoning their resort to vandalism rather than encouraging them to exercise the voice allocated to them under our system of government? WTF?
I'm cool with it, especially based on the realities of politics in NC
The NCGA has:
-Criminalized any removal Confederate statues- *including orderly removal processes driven by local votes.*
-Gerrymandered itself a veto-proof majority
-Threatened to impeach state supreme court judges who disagree w them
-Eroded the governor's authority so severely, GOP officials have come out against it
-Eradicated local decision making power on a huge swath of issues- labor law, housing, civil rights, etc.
The NC GOP is on a mission to get rid of local control, centering all power in the state with the NCGA - see Trudy Wade's effort to redistrict Greensboro/Guilford county to shift power and assert state control over local elections/decisions (this was rebuffed by the state supreme court, but a similar move against the Guilford Co BOE went through without legal challenge).
There is no "working with them" because they passed laws to criminalize any intent to remove statues (even through legal, local means and votes) and hold a veto-proof majority held by heavily gerrymandered districts.