So I work hard not getting caught up in the politics of the election. Everything has a negative slant. Each political advertisement is an attack on an opponent. In the end, I don't vote party but people.
But I've noticed something that concerns me. It seems like we have come to a point where both parties are running on a platform of fear. Nowhere is there any indication that this is a friendly universe.
There is no respect back and forth anymore. A vote for an opponent will send the world to hell. There is no more collaboration or give and take.
There was a restaurant near the Capitol named Posey's. It was said that most of the laws were put together in this restaurant. That kind of connection collaboration no longer exists.
I worked in the California State Capitol from 1968 to 1972 as a tour guide. I led daily tours ranging from thirty minutes long to all day. I got a chance to sit in on sessions of the Senate and the Assembly and many committee meetings. I got to see Willie Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Moscone (killed while serving as San Francisco mayor), and Leo Ryan (killed in a fact-finding mission to Jonestown).
At one point during my tours, I got permission to take my smaller groups into the inner conference room in the governor's office. I would do a short spiel and then as I directed the group out of the room I would point out a big glass bowl of Governor Reagan's jelly beans in the center of the table. Once the kids left the room, I would stick a handful of jelly beans in my pocket.
After a year of doin this one day we were leaving the office and the receptionist asked me to stay behind. I went to her desk, she smiled and let me know the conference room was monitored by cameras. Thus my pockets of jelly beans had been televised. She told me the Governor thought it was pretty funny but asked me to stop taking his jelly beans!
That was a little off topic. We are 9 days away from the election. I'm not sure what we can do to step away from the chaos of fear which permeates everything. I just want the results of the election to not be about "look who won - we are doomed!" What can we do to put some positive in it? What can we do to have some hope?
I took voice lessons for a year or two long ago. A song we worked on a lot was "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow." That's what I want to know that the sun will shine. I want to know someone will pay it forward. Someone will do an act of love just because!
It will start because of you so when you wake up tomorrow morning and the sun is shining (or even if it is raining,) start your love revolution............
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