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Moving forward after the election
Where do we go from here?
Th at question emerges now that the grueling 2018 campaign has fi nally
ended. Th e votes have been cast and counted. Th e winners are celebrating;
the losers seek consolation aft er a bitter, long, nasty campaign. Th e nation
moves on with its life; some are already beginning to talk about 2020 (a mistake
considering all the other problems facing us in the year to come).
So where do we go from here?
Do we again retreat into our respective corners — Democrats, Republicans,
liberals, conservatives, independents, moderates, the politically active, the
apathetic, etc. — and act in greater divisiveness? In many respects, this is
exactly what’s occurred since the 2016 election and its outcome.
Or do we seek a diff erent path now, one forged in the time-honored
American concepts of humility and compromise?
Forget civility — that word has been overused for a while now. People can
be civil with each other while still being too stubborn and obstinate to work
with those diff erent from each other.
We’re talking about humility and compromise, the ability for all of us to
realize that we’re all Americans, part of the same country. We’re not enemies,
we’re part of the same country. And all of us, we would hope, want a better,
stronger nation than the one we already have — and would want to build a
better, stronger nation for our children to enjoy tomorrow.
We don’t expect everyone to start singing Kumbaya together. We just want
the people who represent us — particularly those in Congress and in the
White House — to start working for us once again.
How about passing a yearlong budget for once without allowing partisan
poison pills to spoil every attempt to get our fi scal house in order? How about
reforming health care to drive down costs while simultaneously expanding
coverage nationwide?
How about fi nally doing something to protect Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid, food stamps and other government safety nets upon which millions
of Americans pay into and rely upon in times of personal trouble? How
about doing something to keep these programs fi scally solvent and stopping
every attempt to raid these programs to pay for government waste?
How about no longer embracing divisive, hateful ideologies that drive people
apart — that seek to dehumanize people based on religion, race and color
— and fi nally renewing America as a nation that welcomes everyone? How
about reforming our immigration without destroying it?
None of this is beyond our representatives’ abilities.
We’ve made our voices heard. Now we have to make sure those we elected
listened, and help us get there.
Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis
Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps
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E ditor-In-Chief Robert Pozarycki
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