Election Day thoughts 2022
Election Day. Get out and vote if you haven't done so already. The political landscape looks far different than it did when I first reached the age to vote in 1987. Back then, generations prior, and even for roughly a decade after, our political leaders from all stripes generally worked together, or tried tirelessly to do so, for the good of the country. You could even find them often dining or drinking together in the same restaurants after a day of bitter session debates. Those days, unfortunately, are over. We're now a country divided in so many ways. My firm belief is that in the absence of social media platforms we wouldn't be where we are today; although I still believe the majority of our citizens actually care for one another - I see it firsthand - and generally exercise rational, practical reasoning when electing officials, the outsized bullhorns that social media provides fringe elements give resources to divisive politicians or wannabe fear-mongering leaders, wh...