DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM, not tyranny and despotism. The choice is clear, it’s not “tweedle dum and tweedle dee.” The choosing is near; do you want to throw out 248 years of toil and trouble to keep the flame of Lady Liberty burning or douse the flame to plunge into darkness by voting for the last time? Know your history; Adolph Hitler was elected into office!
TRUTH and JUSTICE, not deceit and deception. Truth informs justice; without truth there can be no justice and without justice there is no peace until someone tells you the truth. Listen carefully to voices of reason and words of wisdom that shine the light of truth on darkness and you, too, shall also see.
COURAGE and COMPASSION, not fear and indifference. Courage, fear, compassion and indifference come from within. “Courage is not the absence of fear, it conquers fear and compassion is not the absence of indifference, it conquers indifference,” paraphrases a Nelson Mandela quotation. What we choose to learn, believe, think, and do, we become.
SHARE for the GREATER GOOD, not selfishness and greed.
“Every man for himself,” on the frontier may have been more foolish bravado of romanticism than wisdom. In 1890, Fredrick Jackson Turner declared the American Frontier, closed! Today, our society is global, more populous, more complex and perplexing. Working together we can take on concentrated private wealth, power and control.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION, not division, exclusion and inequality. DEI stands for fair treatment and full participation of everyone in society. The “dei” offers one last-time vote for neofascist rule by white, Christian nationalists in a lockstep, cult-like following of a “wannabe” dictator. A vote for Kamala Harris secures people power for political democracy and freedom.
“UNITED WE STAND, divided we fall.” The choice is clear, truth sets us free!
Harold Honkola
Stillwater