In the hierarchy of evil, you have Nazis, cell phone companies and human traffickers.

Hot on their heels are those cruel creatures who will vote “no” to renew the Central Kitsap and Bremerton school levies.

Who are they to resist? Just look at the smiling kids on street corners, waving, holding signs. Smiling, always smiling.

What monster would vote against that?

Among the supportive letters to the editor, local media’s overcoverage and the unsettling quiet from those who plan to vote “no,” one skeptical reader wrote that if he did submit a letter in opposition his last name should be removed.

“I don’t want any nuts finding out who I am or where I live,” he wrote.

Fact is, balking at the farce that is a levy measure doesn’t make you a monster.

What may make you a monster is tolerating the lame way Washington state residents pay for the education of our young people, leaving it to sketchy, off-season elections to increase taxes that hit the poor the hardest.

It’s not the fault of school administrators, who probably dislike coming back to voters with hat in hand, and it’s certainly not the fault of students, the ones being shortchanged.

Who is at fault? Well, gentle reader, we all are.

And it’s gotten so bad, for so long, we have painted ourselves into a corner.

Either way, if the levy renewals pass or fail, the result isn’t good. If they fail, the community will have failed its kids.

If they pass, rents and tax bills will go up in a down economy and our unfair, inadequate school finance system is further entrenched.

So, brace thyself, workers of Bremerton and Central Kitsap.

At least you’re not a cell phone company.