Editor:

Your article, "A Deluge of Expletives" (July 19), was more than upsetting — what happened to our beloved Humboldt County?

Have we fallen to the level of our current POTUS from the trickle down effect? How does a democracy survive when disagreements cannot be rationally discussed without fear of reprisal? It must be my naïveté that thought our community was more resistant to current day incivility and I find myself yearning for the bubble I thought was home.

— Rita Carole, McKinleyville