REGAN: First step is admitting you have a problem

Brent Regan’s latest diatribe reads like a middle child acting out after mom and dad shower their eldest and youngest children with all their attention. Our community is increasingly becoming irritated of the KCRCC’s questionable approach to controlling our Republican party and to our ability to select our local and state representatives. Having been exposed, Brent now attempts to rationalize his behavior by normalizing unreasonableness.

Brent starts by establishing himself “credible” (…an inventor by trade). Then he introduces his primary argument, that consensus protects the status quo — a logical fallacy — then concludes with voter fraud, meant to stoke fear. Closer to reality is that individual political preferences exist on a continuum, and our society is not collapsing because of centrists’ compromises. 

Better problems we need to tackle include resisting our primitive psychological need to belong to a group and acknowledging our collective failure to critically evaluate the outrage news that we routinely digest.

Brent asserts that he needs unreasonable men(sic) working. We don’t need unreasonable men or women: we need rational leaders who unite our community toward solutions without his scare or authoritarian tactics. In advocating for unreasonableness, he champions the societal collapse he warns against. Congratulations, middle child Jan, for taking that first important step admitting your problem; it’s just common sense.

DANA SILVA
Coeur d’Alene