Alaskan Like You

I've come to an unexpected realization: I don't hate Don Young, anymore.

In my parents waning years, I listened more to what the old-timers had to say, and I suppose it made more more nostalgic for their past. For his many many (many), faults, Don Young is the genuine article. As close to a "real Alaskan" as a white man can get. A real right-wing crank in a Republican party full of cynical huckster playing to the cranks.

Sometimes you can't help for feeling sympathy for a dying breed, even if you think the world will be a better place for that breed dying off.