Dear editor, Thank you so much for sharing the Dallas Morning News editorial article. Unfortunately, editorials like this are the newspaper’s opinion on an issue, but someone penned the same. I would assume the owner or an executive. Whoever’s fingerprints are on that page is a very wise individual and our country desperately needs another 168.42 million (2022) registered voters with a like mindset.
I started highlighting sentences that I felt were virtuous with my yellow highlighter. Bad idea, I almost highlighted the entire article. What wasn’t highlighted were my personal issues, that were alluded to, that were less than virtuous. Again, I took a lesson from the writer’s insightful article.
Here are a few moving sentences from said editorial: The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. More Americans commit to produce less coarse discourse, lower the emotional temperature, reject threats of violence toward each other and uplift the trusted institutions that preserve legal order. In the face of polarizing headwinds, each of us must rise above the muck and go to the polls this election cycle as informed citizens. Be a part of the answer, not the problem. Model positive behaviors and expect candidates and those in positions of public trust to do the same by embracing virtues of honesty and humility. Learn to listen and, just as important, to disagree without being disagreeable. Don’t reward politicians who play to polarization.
Last but not least, We can rediscover the best of our nation’s ideals, but only if we commit to being better citizens.
Jack Brooks bjohnr2010@hotmail. com
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