Reject voting on single issues

Published 1:30 am Friday, October 21, 2022

Imagine the Golden Gate Bridge without guard rails — mass chaos — with the most aggressive drivers shoving their way through. That’s where we’re headed.

You’ll vote soon. Insist on voting for those offering reasonable solutions that create more order, enabling us to live freely yet safely. No single source is considered trustworthy anymore, so use your own eyes and common sense and vote wisely. Ignore hype where facts are irrelevant and what’s simply “sensible” is somehow being hijacked.

At stake? Alarming rising levels of: crime; inflation; fentanyl; youth suicides/depression; border issues; pre-3rd grade poly-gender initiatives; biological competition conflicts; China dependence; Russian nukes; wholesale pronoun inventions that address less than 8 percent of our population at the confusion, readership, education cost of 92 percent; etc.

Be wary of political games attempting to deflect attention away from these very real issues. Resist the emotional coercion from loud voices empty of reasonableness, trying to force new non-sensible ‘woke rules’ down throats. Resist the seduction of high-risk single-issue voting — like the concerns regarding abortion laws — now in the hands of states. It’s not that they are not a serious issue, they are. They’re just not the only issue. One-issue voting this time around is dangerous. Select who makes sense on the most issues; who demonstrates reasonable thinking with ideas that have a chance of better aligning us to enable survival as a healthier nation.

Constantly evolving our understanding of others is right, but non-sensible demands that also condemn challenge are wrong.

Mary J. Harwood

Snohomish