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Vestal: I’m mad, that’s democracy

You mad?

I know I am. And I know that a lot of people who lean my way are mad. And I know that a lot of people who lean the other way are mad. The people in the streets are mad, and the people holding town halls when their representatives won’t are mad, and the people who don’t like the people in the streets or at the town halls are mad, and the president is utterly mad – in every sense – as are his enablers in Congress and the times themselves.

Mad. It’s a tense, anxious, angry time. I’ve butted heads with family and friends over politics, to say nothing of the head-butting with people who are neither. I’ve seen more insults slung, more names called, more ad hominems added than I can remember – and I have slung, called and added more, myself/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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