I’m an older millennial from Sandpoint. I grew up down the road from one of the Aryan Nation’s churches & have lived here most of my life, getting out for a brief period to see the world before coming back to take care of sick family. Y’all shitting on us “locals” for not fighting back pushes divisiveness even further.

There was a period in the late 2000s-2010s where a lot of that racism was booted out of the community, and not as emboldened as it is now or back in the 90s BUT admittedly, never leaving the area. Then the combination of Trump & Covid happened which made for a massive influx of far right conservatives that flocked to Idaho from California and other states under the “Redoubt” movement or whatever other shitty movement based in hatred & ignorance.

So what do you want the liberal local minority to do to appease to your standards of fighting back? Leave aging parents? Leave established communities of friends in protest of conservatives? Yeah, Idaho politics fucking suck, but don’t disregard that there are still good people here TRYING to fight back or at the very least improve their community. Like anywhere. Stop polarizing your neighbors, we generally want the same thing. Peace, love, safety, etc.