Local View: Like when kayaking, let's look away from the chaos

Local View: Like when kayaking, let's look away from the chaos

I began to write with a goal of re-absorbing the old whitewater kayaking directive to “know where you are before you try to land elsewhere.” With that in mind, it seems timely to understand how, in rapid succession, our government has objectively careened toward chaos. Supporters of this condition of our nation seemingly feel that the system we had before 2024 was truly harming their well-being. Those who look at this as an autocratic dissemblin…