It’s Time To Worry When Tolerance Is Intolerable
Our cheery sign promoting unity was stolen from our front yard
I generally avoid writing about politics
But when politics walks into your front yard and makes off with your personal property, I can’t not write about it.
To paraphrase Leon Trotsky (who was speaking about war): you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
This weekend, the politics of division was certainly interested in us and our well-meaning yard sign.
We live in Idaho. It’s a red state. We get that
We knew that long before we moved from the blue bubble of our corner of California (or, as we say now, The State To The South That Shall Not Be Named) to a different bubble, one that’s redder than a corpuscle.
Idaho regularly makes the national news for its neon-scarlet politics. The state has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation — there’s an exception for “the life of the mother” but not the health of the mother.
I have personally listened to OBGYNs’ heart-wrenching stories of wondering how close to death they have to let a mother — who is likely to have other children waiting…
