With extreme views, nobody is the winner

Our small town is home to a bevy of readers and writers, a core group of which make rigorously consistent contributions to our local papers' editorial sections with their righteous, preachy teachings. We all know who they are.

I propose we sponsor a year-round soap box and megaphone in the middle of Farmin Park for these ideologues. That way, every time a clever thought pops into their heads there will be no waiting for publishing scrutiny and lag time to impress us - the unenlightened cretins of Bonner County - with their every pearls of wisdom that they've just gleaned off of NPR, QAnon, or a Facebook post, and we can free up some print space.

To reference a recent letter submitted by the infamous perennial candidate Steve Johnson, he sees fit to correct the incorrigible judgements of us inbred white devil racists to make sure we know the truths regarding the War of Northern Aggression (known in layman's terms as the Civil War.) Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for once again pointing out how wicked and responsible we all are for an event that ended 156 years ago.

If I sound overly critical of Mr. Johnson, rest assured that I genuinely do value his (and everyone else's) counterpoint to some of the political views in Bonner County and beyond. Dissension and debate are a good thing. But when one attempts to counter radical right gibberish with their own flavor of loony left babble, they both get canceled out due to idiocracy and nobody wins.

JIM LITTLEBIRD

Sagle