Strength in the middle majority

Letter to the Editor

Sanders County is a conservative place. We are mostly of the middle majority and reject the fringes. We pay our fair share of federal, state and local taxes but want our money used wisely and want billionaires to pay their share. We reject ideas of defunding the police; we ask for more funding for training and salaries. We are cautious about change but are willing to calmly discuss it. We defend free speech but expect civility. Most of us have guns, but don’t feel the need to wear one on our hip. The conservative middle majority have volunteered for community service from 4-H to school boards. We have banded together to create the Poker Run, Huckleberry Festival, Dinner Theater. We have organized volunteer fire departments and ambulance service. These endeavors have been non-political and have relied upon a mutual sense of fair play and cooperation.

The middle majority in Noxon successfully rebuffed a budding white supremacy build up in the eighties. Heron pulled off getting the school property for a community center. There is tremendous strength in these small towns when the middle majority get riled up.

Last week several folks of the 258 middle majority who had signed onto an ad in the Sanders County Ledger sponsored by Treasure State Values received a list of all who had signed. Taped across the list were two strips of paper proclaiming in bold caps: “you are brain dead f---ing morons” and “F--- Joe Biden. Since the ad had called for civility, the irony escaped the anonymous morons who sent the profanity.

After reading our strips and moving from amusement to anger, my better half and I, in our 80’s, know we must again become involved in local doings. Our little town is facing threats from the fringe. The middle majority needs to question the motives of those wearing the sheep skins of patriotism while trying to tear down democracy and those who wrap themselves in the cloak of Christianity while discarding Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount command: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Lou Springer,

Heron