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Fight fire with fire

Sat., Aug. 31, 2019

For some, political discourse has degenerated into defamatory diatribes of hackneyed name-calling. Their favorites are “racists” and “Nazis.” They use them so often, and it’s so emblematic of their mindset, that they have earned their own epithet: “Nutsies.” There so many of them that they deserve their own new group, the “Nutsy Party.”

So now you know what to reply when someone uses those trite tropes to disparage others.

Bob Strong

Spokane

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