It has taken me awhile, but I have finally figured out that, regardless of how well intended, my sardonic humor and participation in the culture of mutual heckling and denigration has only served to offend and destroy and alienate rather than build up and cohere. I see now that I have been a part of the problem, rather than the solution.
I wish to reverse this, and so I have decided to use the inaugural day of one of my past political nemesis to end my own divisiveness and try a different approach by launching a blog devoted to real political and economic healing and progress..
Does this mean I will be engaged in wholesale capitulation, appeasement, and genuflecting? Not at all. I will still hold firm to my proven convictions and remain steady in my resolve to better myself and this nation. Rather, this is about finding areas of commonality around which we all can coalesce, and an openness to more effective and mutually beneficial resolutions in working out our differences..
My governing attitude for this blog is taken from the hypocratic oath: "Do no harm." I also favor the Golden Rule.
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