This letter is in regards to the letter by Katherine Ford in the Thursday edition of The Chronicle and our sad red county.
Lewis County is a good place to live, raise a family and be a part of the community. I came here 30 years ago. What is happening in the world around us is not due to the conservative nature of Lewis County nor the decent law-abiding people who live here, both on the right and the left.
We did not make waste to the laws. That came out of Olympia and a corrupted one-party rule, with some very absurd notions regarding objective reality and what is really the good.
There is a difference between doing the right thing and doing what is right, but one must know what that difference is and the principles upon which one chooses a specific action.
Instead of implying we the people of Lewis County and our government are some defective and flawed because of principled thinking, Ms. Ford might want to consider a different approach that does not demean and divide people.
We have had way too much of that kind of trash on the national level over the last two years. I have many good friends here both Democrats and Republicans. They have much in common, many on both sides being supporters of the First and Second Amendments.
What say we let freedom ring, respect one another and actually practice real tolerance toward each other's views.
Most people here, left, right and in the middle respect others people's right to think differently and hold different points of view.
James Goddard
Centralia
