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This November, We Have a Choice
We can choose to continue with partisanship, or we can elect leaders that are more interested in solutions than politics
In November 2020, the American voters went to the polls in record numbers to make a generational choice on the future of our country. The American people were clear. We chose decency over demagoguery. We chose facts over falsehoods.
Sadly, the voters of Wyoming recently elected to go back on that choice, with Liz Cheney losing her primary. Liz Cheney is a republican and I am not. There is very little I agree with Liz Cheney on, but I have absolute respect for her courage and integrity in choosing our country over her party. Sadly, she paid a price for her commitment to the truth.
Liz Cheney represents what we need more of on both sides of the aisle. People who are committed to the truth, to facts, and to being open to working with those whom we may not always agree with. Far too often our elected representatives have become more concerned with beating the other side than with doing what is in the best interests of the people. They are more concerned with winning their elections, furthering their political careers, and representing the interests of their party than they are with representing the people who elected them.
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The partisanship of both major parties has created an atmosphere where each side believes they must win everything, and the other side must lose everything. Winning over the opposition has become the goal, not doing what is in the best interests of the public.
This November, we will have a choice, just as the people of Wyoming did. We need to elect people that understand that those on the other side of the aisle are not the enemy. That there are people, on both sides, that are working to do what they believe to be in the best interests of our society and our community. Some people just have a different opinion of what those best interests are.
The only way we can make progress is through communication, honesty, and compromise. We have to engage and work with each other. We don’t have to agree. We won’t more often than not, but we do have to listen to each other. Because if we can’t do that, how can we move forward together as a community?
