expand the conversation

 

Even if it is not the love you seek, you think

would save you or that you deserve,

it means someone was touched enough

by you to create love

we have a two-party system not 

because there are two parties, but 

because the electoral system has 

been set up to promote that

Ranked choice would allow people 

to break out of the party trap and 

see the benefits of other kinds of 

candidates.

Campaign finance reform can best 

be handled by making money in politics 

less relevant -- having other models to 

create and promote candidates

all it would take is a great deal of work 

and dedication

How about promoting Ranked

Choice (or STAR) voting so

we can see what candidates the

people really want, not just who

they are voting against.

Our planet is falling apart

Don't you see?

How can you keep any

confidence in "business as

usual"?

Hate Trump?  Do what you

can to help those he attacks.

Fight back and win.  Make

him look weak, not worthy of

fear or following.

Why express our overwhelmed

emotions and the solutions

we may contemplate within

the public page?

In all this chaos and confusion,

how will it even be heard (seen)?

Or, if barely heard, cared about

enough to share, how could

it make a difference?

This is an added voice to the vast

conversation, another breeze

to sway evolving trends, another

resonance among the rest that

creates our collective song.

Maybe not enough to make

clear and present change for

better.  But at least that strand is

there to be seen, heard, advanced

-- which its absence would

disallow.

Woman - defined by what is done

to us, unwarranted limitations.

Understand, your bad-mouthing,

extreme agitation, will not compel

people to change their decided votes.

You may instead help to convince

them to participate less in this

unsatisfactory political system.

To promote democracy, encourage

freer exercise, civil debate, idea

proliferation, more diverse candidates

to provide an ever wider possibility

of excellent representation and

leadership.

If you are so concerned that your

guy needs to win, make your case,

show how your guy is best not

just for you, but for us all,, and

especially for the people you are

speaking with.

And, much more importantly,

LISTEN

Learn what those people want,

think, feel about the potential

candidates and issues.  Respect

them as fellows with whom to work

togetherr on our common project

of self-rule, democracy.  Not a place

where the loudest, most outraged,

wins to rule us all.

11/25-30/23