I’ve stood on a busy nook with different residents of our retirement neighborhood holding up “No Kings” indicators. It’s encouraging to listen to the sturdy assist of our Seattle neighbors as they honk in settlement.
However I got here from Michigan, a purple state. I see those that voted Republican within the 2024 election as not believing that our Structure was at stake. Now I feel that the Democrats must redefine their targets in a approach that may broaden the tent. I wish to see extra emphasis upon the discount of inflation and job development, and fewer speak about divisive points like abortion and gender. We have to enhance income by means of taxation in order that we are able to pay down our nationwide debt and decrease the price of medical health insurance. What is required now’s nationwide management within the high quality artwork of political compromise.
I consider that the “tradition wars” that now we have fought in American society — no less than since 1968 — have fed the MAGA motion. I wish to see the “blue states” recapture the middle and assist heal divisions. To borrow the phrases of Andrew Jackson in 1830, “The Union, it should be preserved!”
Doris B. Heineman, Seattle
