Kari Kopnick shares her afternoon at the District 47 Democrat Caucus:

Oh man what a fantastic day! It was a good day to be a Washingtonian. It was a good day to be a Citizen. It was a good day to be here in these United States where we have so many ideals and so far to go to meet them.

I went to my neighborhood caucus Saturday afternoon. I had to park way across a busy street in a grocery store parking lot and trek over to the school where my neighbors were packed tight into a school gym.

Crammed in the stuffy little gym were old people, young people and middle aged people, people of lots of ethnic and racial groups and people of different physical abilities. From the looks of the cars in the parking lot there were even probably richer and less rich folks. It was very cool. We were all there doing the whole little “d” democracy thing.

And everyone was so respectful. People were streaming in the doors at least until 1:30, and since my precinct was located by the entrance, I got to see neighbors help their neighbors find the right precinct, navigate wheelchairs and walkers thru the crowd and keep the room not too hot and not too cold; all with kindness and respect.

I think every time an older person came in a chair was immediately offered to them.

And when it came time to divide up for our respective candidates, everyone was very careful to walk that line of respect for each other’s choice.

Is this what politics are always like?

OK, stop laughing.

At least for one day the politics were clean and high minded. It was a good day to be a Benson Hill neighbor.