'Happy Days' are here once again

More than old movies, old novels, old cars, old smells, old places or old faces, old songs remind me of old times – and of happy new ones like when the sun came out over North Idaho on May 21. That’s when Jim Woodward and fellow straight arrow candidates won political slugfests against opponents who don’t like public schools, libraries run by librarians, the rule of law, female equality, truth, honesty, the U.S. Constitution or anything else about America that has made it the earth’s most coveted country for 250 years. Like America’s current sadistic, unlettered con man and dictator wannabe, they consider the national media “the enemy of the people.” So did a Nazi dictator in the 1930s and 40s who spawned the death of more than a million people.

The historic tune pertinent to May 21 is "Happy Days Are Here Again", President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign song. Today it belongs to all of us, whatever our politics: “Happy days are here again … the skies above are clear again … so let’s sing a song of cheer again … happy days are here again.” Good job, North Idaho!

TIM H. HENNEY

Sandpoint