[Vision2020] Phil and the Tribune

[Pat Kraut]

This is wonderful of you... a real keeper and thank you so much...I fear I
am still in shock.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Johnson" <deveryone at potlatch.com>
To: "vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 7:56 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Phil and the Tribune


    All of you who read the Lewiston Tribune's story about Vision 2020
know that Phil Nisbet agreed to contribute to the effort by answers
questions I posed via email. And all of you who answered the same or
similar questions know that only small portions of your answers were
used. I'm sure Phil, like others, lamented that. But newspaper reporters
and editors do that sort of paring.
     I was shocked and saddened by Phil's death. So I offer you all the
unedited answers he gave to my questions -- his heartfelt opinion, if
you will, of this forum that he so exuberantly became a part of.

David Johnson
Lewiston Tribune



1. What's good about V 2020?

Its a good early warning system for plans germinated by the left in Moscow.

2. What's bad about it?

Knowing what they plan requires you to respond, which in turn makes you
a target.

3. Why do you stay so active?

I was inactive for a time and they launched a scud missile.  (Though I
did get that spiffy article title you wrote for that particular occasion.)

4. Is the discourse an accurate reflection of Moscow?

It is an accurate reflection of some of Moscow, the portions centered on
the University and its more left leaning constituency.  The voices on
the right that do post in V2020 are most often there to counter claims
made by the left.

The biggest real advantage that can come of the list serv is to break
past the normal barriers to left right discourse and make those who tend
to demonize their opposition see people rather than enemies in their
line of sight.  I actually post there in hope that it can heal rifts
rather than continue to create them.

The red blue chasm that political warfare has spawned in the USA is
particularly strong in Moscow.  Either it has to be healed or civic
discourse will continue to falter.  Unlike other areas in Idaho, Moscow
is fairly evenly divided between the parties, so solving it is more
important here than in other locations in the state.

Phil

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