EVENTS: Beware radical elements

The statement “I did not vote against impeachment because it would increase the disharmony” echoes from the mouths of many Republicans, including our own Russ Fulcher. That’s a cop-out. Trump’s actions wronged our society. He should be accountable for that. And most Republicans never stood up against him.

When the horrible business was going on at the Capitol, I was reading Wild Swans, the account of a Chinese woman who lived during the Chiang Kai-Chek and Mao eras and also her mother and grandmother’s accounts which extended back to the Japanese takeover of 1937.

In the book is a description of the brutality that was so horrific, it exceeded anything a wild animal would do. There was no legal system to protect the citizens. If we let the radical element prevail in our society, it can only get worse.

Another face to that radical attitude is the disbelief in science. We knew very little about pandemics before COVID came. But there is a mass of data on different measures that were taken and how effective they were.

Shouldn’t the experts in statistics and economics and health analyze that data and formulate the suggested actions to confront the next epidemic? Not the four Republicans and their measures directed against Gov. Little, who did his very best to find the measures that he thought the most effective?

It shouldn’t be newly elected Sheriff Norris. His refusal to enforce the mask mandate coupled with the campaign statement in the Coeur d’Alene Press that affordable housing should be avoided because it requires extra police/sheriff deputy efforts. That should have made us wonder if he too is not a radical element.

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