I remember watching my parents go out to vote. We grew up in the civil rights time and there were always some emotional issues on the table that polarized the nation. The right to vote, the right to represent, the right to eat where you want and live where you can and hope and grow and elect and be elected are not new concepts. They are now and always, what is symbolized on election day.
Whoever is in office, at the end of the day, has the enormous task of unifying the perspectives that were elucidated in the campaign into one nation. "One nation under God, indivisible..." What is indivisible? Indivisible in perspective?, No! We have our own perspectives and they remain, long after the ballots are cast. We have our own identities, but we unify in that we engage in the conflict to maintain unity of perspective, in the midst of varied and various perspectives.
The ideas come to the surface in the election and as adults we are to take those perspectives and weave them into the minds of the children that are in our influence. We are above the conflict and we are above the divisions. The divisions are just clarifying the issues to be dealt with; which are a part of the pattern of the history of our nation. Fighting not against eachother, but with eachother to blend the perspectives into what we call ONE NATION!
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