Appreciate honesty, compassion in Sid Schwab’s column

I have admired the unique honesty of Sid Schwab’s Herald column for several years now. And I admire the paper for printing a view so clearly critical of the embarrassment come to be known as MAGA.

I greatly admire those that can write well and hold back nothing. Personally, I believe this insane culture war is strife between those that admit reality and those that indulge their darker human urges and feelings as a result of not being educated or being identified by a culture that is afraid of anything challenging their rightness and world views.

Since we are all human, with the possible exception of Elon Musk, that’s the reason for all our dark nuttiness. The good guys now include many ultra conservatives and liberals. As usual, the bad guys include hordes of those in the middle So, IMO, believe whatever you want (most do). But have a heart and care about living in the real world as if everything depends on it. Because it does.

The details will take care of themselves if we can do this. History says we will but learning too little too late does also define history. We can do so much better but it feels like I’m living in a world that never got out of middle school. Again, thanks for Sid’s brutal honesty and compassion in words every week.

Rick Walker

Snohomish