What do we need to do to put the United back in the United States? - Election 2020 Thoughts and Ruminations

What do we need to do to put the United back in the United States?

That is the thought I have been having all day. I am seeing concern from both sides today which I guess is good and bad depending upon your perspective. I think we need to ask this question repeatedly over the coming weeks thinking about what each one of us can do to unite and not divide.

Regardless of tonight’s outcome we all need to demand and emphasize unity to whomever is elected. They do not just govern for you and what you believe in. They govern all of us in spite of all our warts, hemorrhoids and other various maladies.

Somewhere along the line our elected officials shifted to a my way or the highway approach that has not benefitted us collectively and has driven a chasm between our citizens. We need to push them back to compromise and putting our priorities over their priorities. The political parties have drifted further apart causing a vacuum that sucked everyone out of the middle. I assume most of us reside in the middle ideologically where we want to live in peace, raise our families and chase the American Dream as each of us sees fit.

United we stand divide we fall. If we don’t figure out a way to come together than we will most assuredly fall apart into civil unrest or worse. Is that what you really want? If so please stop reading now and just unfriend me.

We are not the Fascist Republican States of America or Socialists Democratic States of America. We are not red state and blue states we are all hues of purple mountains majesty. We are the UNITED STATES of AMERICA and it’s time that We the People start acting like it.

We are Americans. We all love our country and we all love it differently. We may not agree with how that love is shown but we all want those things guaranteed to all citizens Life Liberty and the Pursuit or Happiness

We have to stop allowing politicians to divide us. We have to stop the media from reporting on this like it’s a sporting event with winners and losers. We all win or we all lose. We have to stop believing that we hate or neighbor or your neighbor hates this country. We have to stop with the name calling and following the empty rhetoric spewed by talking heads and shared on social media.

I honestly don’t know what I can do to prevent what feels like an inevitable train wreck. It’s like watching the Titanic as it steams towards the iceberg unable to turn enough to avoid its frozen fate at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

What are you going to do to unite us? What are you going to do to help, not hurt, your neighbor or your fellow countryman?