Can we agree?
By: Kevin King
Tags: America, Republican Party, Decency, Democracy In America

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Can we agree?

With the 2020 American election all but sealed, I had hoped that America could have moved on from the tragedy of the Trump administration by now. However… Kevin King Dec 12, 2020·3 min read

… every day the low bar of depraved human behavior is lowered even further by this group of grifters and thugs. A response is warranted. So here goes:

We are better than this.

If the past four years have taught us anything at all, it is that honesty, decency, community, and cooperation are deceptively fragile concepts. For the past several weeks, a statistically significant number of working class people have been sending their hard-earned money to a self-proclaimed billionaire in an attempt to fraudulently — and without evidence — steal an election that primarily benefits the wealthy by whom they are enslaved. Can we agree that something is amiss with this picture?

On the other side of the aisle, people have come out en masse for this election to ensure that America changes this present trajectory. We are your neighbors; we are your communities. We are people who help other people even when we don’t see eye to eye. We build bridges, not walls. We believe that the greatest natural resource in America is not her economy or her resources, but rather it is her people. And for this belief, the other side gives us hateful, childish names like “libtard”. Can we agree that something is amiss with this picture?

We are smarter than this.

The party of “all lives matter” will protect the unborn up to the moment of birth. This is laudable. However, these children and their families are then abandoned to an unaffordable and presently overrun healthcare system overloaded by SICKNESS and DEATH from a pandemic their leadership has labeled as a “hoax”. Yet, in perhaps the most American twist to all of this, COVID-19 is an equal opportunity killer. It doesn’t care about how old you are, your gender, income level, or your political affiliation; it exists entirely to kill or maim every person unfortunate enough to wander into its path. Yet how do these people respond? They attend rallies that further the spread of the killer while claiming that medical care for all is too “socialist” for America. Can we agree that something is amiss with this picture?

We are in this together.

It is a near universal truth that if you want something to be mismanaged, misappropriated, or just plain destroyed, put it in the hands of the United States government. For this reason, the government needs some fundamental changes. Let’s stop electing the indecent, the selfish, the ethically weak, and the least intelligent. Let’s elect people who — call me crazy — have enough proven leadership to understand the humility, wisdom, and grace required of the post. Let us focus on what brings us together in functional communities instead of shining white hot spotlights on things that separate and divide us.

No matter what we do, let us do it together. We’ve seen the effects of a country divided, and it’s killing America. Can we agree to try something different now?