Instead of moratorium, let's have exchange

A recent letter to the editor suggested a moratorium on liberals moving to Bonner County, while this might seem like a good idea, I think a more fair and equitable solution to this problem would be an exchange, similar to the foreign student exchange but on a more long-term basis.

We could send our local members of the resistance movement to the hotbeds of the movement like Portland, Ore., and Berkley, Calif., in exchange for victims of the resistance movement’s violence.

For example, some months ago the Democrats rioted over a gay libertarian invited to speak at Berkley, during the riot a young women was talking to a reporter when a Democrat snuck up behind her and pepper sprayed her in the face. We could offer her a safe haven in Bonner County, where she could express her political views, free from assaults by Democrats. In exchange we could send our blowhard Bolshevik, who is constantly on this forum, deriding two-thirds of the citizens of the county to Berkley. There he would be able to join with his fellow national socialists, antifa leftists and Democrats in suppressing any and all libertarian and conservative speech by any means necessary.

If this exchange proves successful we could expand it to include elected officials. We could send our Republican-in-name-only state senator to the California Legislature, where she could shill for large corporations and raise gas and grocery taxes on the little people with like-minded liberals to her heart’s content. In exchange we would take in a conservative or libertarian California legislator who realizes that raising the gas tax in rural state such as ours hurts the working poor who have to drive some distance to work the most.

Then we can go international and send the Sandpoint mayor, city administrator, city council and the rest of city hall to Syria, where they can show the Syrians how tolerant they are and counsel them on how global climate warming change and coal trains are the greatest danger they will ever face. In exchange, we will take in an equal number of Yazidi women, who have been violently oppressed and put them in charge of city hall. I am 100-percent confident that within one hour of them taking over city hall they can figure out which street corners an average logging truck can negotiate and come up with a viable traffic plan for the streets of Sandpoint.

Let us not forget the children, who are our future. We could send the administration and board of the Forrest Bird Charter School to Egypt, where they could instruct the Muslim Brotherhood in the latest liberal indoctrination techniques and how gay and straight clubs and LGBTQ lifestyle studies are essential to a proper education. In exchange, we could harbor an equal number of Coptics and put them in charge of the charter school. Then they could teach the children about reading, writing, math, science, art and history.

They possibilities of creating a more diverse and peaceful society in Bonner County, the United States, and the world with this exchange are endless!

ERIC KEIL

Sagle