a lot of your life is shaped by the opportunities you turn down as much as those you take up. - Bill Clinton

Sun Tzu said, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,

All too often, those who rail against “them” prevail over earnest pleas to remember what “we” can be and do together. Our brains have worked this way for a long time. Maybe they always will. But we have to keep trying. That’s the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us — moving toward the “more perfect union.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!