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This is such a horrible myth we are carrying on here. It is so bad for all of us. We don't have to hate the other side. Whether the other side is a candidate, or a party, or the enemy.
It is all so full of fear. This is exactly the game the other side plays. Using fear of the "other" to divide. Neither candidate should participate. The prize isn't worth the result. If they both cared, and I think they do, the end result will be about our success and not our devision.
Neither one of them deserves our votes if they can't come to that conclusion.
We all have instincts about who we like. We should be listening to each others instincts and learning where they are coming from. I want to understand the power of HRC as the first female president and how that draws people in.
My hopes are else where but I understand having a different opinion. And it is good to ask the question how to we take hope and dreams and make them real? Having them is the first start. Having a vision that it doesn't have to be about devision but could be simply about success.
We want a successful party, government, economy and world. We need both the dreamers and the hard workers to get there. We need the whole not the devision. I am so over the electioneering math.
What I would really like to see is some real questions to the candidates. Strong questions about how to win an election, in divided country at war? Then follow up with how to move the country forward? How to get the best people involved? How to make government a place of excellence instead of a place of dysfunction and politics?
How to have a strong economy that reacts to the changing world and is within our values? How to build a reliable safty net? How to have excellent public education to support all this?
These are the real questions. Can Salon spend sometime getting us answers? Lets see the Salon debate about future. About how to win and reach our goals.
Both our candidates share much of the same goals. Let talk about how to get them accomplished and let the beauty contest play out on Fox.
