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Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, neither Tea Partiers nor Occupiers, nor any one of us has the one right answer. The world is too diverse for that. To scream at each other because the other does not adopt our solution would be laughable if it were not so sad.

What is needed is to hear one another as to our needs. We fear that if the other is in the ascendancy, then we will not get what we need, and therein lies our need to scream. For if we do not get what we need, we are at risk for dying.

Yet there are myriad solutions: many get a job, some choose to start a business, or just get to work; some cook, some tend wounds, some weld steel; some engage heart, some head, some muscle and sinew. All have dreams and a direction and a need to be heard. When we are heard, when we are able to engage our creativity and strengths, the world improves by just that much.

What we don’t need is any “side” requiring everybody to acquiesce to their program. There are many ways. Let’s allow others.

:- Doug.