Dispatch to My Fellow Americans #006

Some thoughts up to the '22 midterms

To be an American is an ideal, something to strive toward, something to envision, something to try to embody in thought, word and deed. But there seems to be a fight at the moment between a forward looking vision of being an American and a toxic, backward version of being an American.

Being an American today means being inclusive, multi-cultural, multi-racial and the embrace of diversity. The trick is finding our unity in the diversity. We need to not get lost in the details of the endless possible issues we could be constantly arguing over but rather try to keep an eye on our foundation and on the overview at the same time.

We especially need to not indulge is fantastical conspiracy theories that have no foundation in reality nor facts to support them. The foundation we all stand on must be based on what is actually palpably true and not a pile of dystopian myth making.

There are those who have a program of promoting distrust in our election process and question all of the Americans who are working hard in the trenches in a completely professional and lawful way just to count the votes as they are cast in an accurate way that can produce repeatable results in the need of a recount when things are close. The count is not tabulated by Democrats or Republicans, it is tabulated and overseen by Americans who believe in a fair and accurate vote.

Inciting distrust in this basic aspect in our democratic process when so many engaged Americans are working to do their job is completely unamerican and a threat to the peaceful transfer of power we all expect and the actual expression of the People’s will.

If you haven’t already, get off your butt and vote for democracy.