"Freedom to Disagree - Think of the Possibilities"

Freedom to Disagree – Think of the Possibilities.

The leaves are in their last days of autumn’s colorful majestic splendor. The weather reports their departure is down to a predictable timetable. Oh, there will be a few that hang on but the majority will be leaving us soon. We might not like this change but we’ve been through this before and we’ll endure this again.

And so it will be with this current political season. Every year there is some issue that demands our attention. The political climate changes like the seasons when the winds of disagreement threaten to rearrange the status quo.

Once this political season is past so the political signs will come down and the rhetoric will fall into the background of our daily lives. We will continue being the same people we have always been regardless of the outcome of the voting. We will find some of our opinions are main stream and some are not. We will find our convictions are shared by the majority and some are not. There are things worth taking a stand as unmovable and our American history is filled with those times. Thank the Good Lord those times are few and far between.

Here in Chillicothe Ohio we have some issues that have riled some of us. Like any community some of us speak our mind without all the polished rhetoric of professional politicians. They just say it the way they mean it and you don’t have to wonder if they have a hidden agenda. That’s the pleasure of living in a rural community, people say what they mean and appreciate that direct honesty. Like I said, they don’t have a hidden agenda, they have a point to make and they want elected officials to lay all the cards on the table so they can see what’s going on. If there’s a doubt, they’ll tell you and everybody else.

You get to know people that way. They don’t change their colors just to please someone or a political party. It’s their conviction and they own what’s their’s. The great thing is that it provides clarity, simplicity and focus. By what I see here in Chillicothe Ohio it is part of our historic DNA to just call it what it is.

Well, the political leaves, if you will, are in their last few days before Election Day on November 3rd. My hunch is we’re going to get a heavy storm of opinions just before the voting. Oh, there’ll be a few heavy down pourings even after the election but this is to be expected. People who believe in something fervently don’t just stop believing it because someone else doesn’t agree with them. Oh, some might not like this but we’ve been through this before and we’ll endure this again.

That’s the joy and blessing of these United States of America, people disagreeing publicly and fervently. We vote our convictions and our opinions because, quite frankly, we have the freedom to do so and its how things improve for all of us. So, regardless of what other's think or feel, stand your ground in your convictions. We have the Freedom to Disagree – Think of the Possibilities.

H. R. Grimm
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