My Take on All This

Just a thought...

Hopefully we can all agree on somethings.  We live in a beautiful city filled with diverse, amazing people; we want to build a strong community that is safe, healthy and prosperous; we want ethical achievements we can be proud of; we want good education and a balanced budget.

What we disagree on is how to acquire these things.  Opposing views and debates are good - they expose us to differences and new ideas.  Yet, throughout the country, this campaign season has not done that.  It has been filled with exaggerations, rudeness, total untruths, lack of transparency in financial contributions and way too much money.  And why?  Because it works.  We have become so lazy that we would choose to believe a 30 second blip that tells us the reasons not to vote for someone instead of doing research on why to vote for someone.  We are easily swayed by sensationalism.  Why?  We have become complacent.  We want our party and our ministers to tell us how to vote, we have given our power away.   Continuing to vote Party lines will only keep us in this vicious circle.  One thing we need is to respectfully talk to each other, not argue but talk.  After we talk we need to listen.  We need to be open to other ideas with the understanding that what makes a nation great is the sum total of its citizens coming together and understanding that although they might not agree they can respectfully and compassionately disagree and then find a way to work together.  Isn't democracy worth it?