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Dave a common thread in a lot of your posts has been the negativity that has been so prevalent during this campaign season. I thank you for that, it has given me something to reflect on and you are absolutely right. During any presidential election with an incumbent you have a record that can be pointed to by the opposition. Of course the challenger has never held the office so it’s only best guess if he is going to make good on his campaign promises.

I personally feel that in large part that has been brought on/done by the politicians themselves and ends up as simple “trickle down” to the voting public. The reason it’s been sooo effective this year is that the majority of people on both sides do not like the direction the country is headed. I honestly feel that on both sides there are way too many people who are reading the headlines and not the article, or if they do read the article, do not search out an opposing view point…….and of course the truth normally fall somewhere in the middle.

My daughter and I had a very good conversation last week on a subject my wife had declared taboo in our house……politics (Missy and I occasionally do stuff like that just to keep her mom on her toes LOL).

Politically Missy and I are on opposite sides of the fence. We discussed the issues that are important to us and why we thought who we were voting for would be a better choice to fix them. At the end of it turns out that Missy is a lot more conservative than I thought, and I’m a lot more liberal than she gave me credit for. We actually agreed on more things than we disagreed about. There were no raised voices and in the end no hurt feelings. I didn’t change her mind, just as she didn’t change mine but in the end we better understood why.

Bottom line……..both sides also have to LISTEN…….something I wish our politicians were better at.


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