[1]Good luck to us all tomorrow. Vote like your future depended upon it.

You're stupid, I'm smart?

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It now seems another world, a lost world, when I heard thoughtful
discussions on guns, abortion, religion, taxes, education, the environment
or even what it meant to be a Republican or a Democrat.

For me, discussion was always stimulating, a place where you could always
learn and sometimes teach with everyone benefiting—if not agreeing, at
least understanding a bit better.

It is what I found attractive about politics then and the lack of it so
disagreeable now.

The “other side” on almost any issue is now ignorant, evil, deserving of
abuse, and occasionally now even violence.

In all societies leaders lead, but in a democracy people choose to either
follow the leader, or change the leaders they have.

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Good luck to us all tomorrow. Vote like your future depended upon it.

Richard Kimball

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Views expressed in this column are those of Richard Kimball

and do not necessarily represent the views of Vote Smart.

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