ELECTION: Stop the circus

If someone says it’s raining, and another says it’s dry, it’s not your responsibility to believe them both. It’s your responsibility to look out the window and find out which is true.

Soon many of you will be going to the polls to vote. Idaho is so strongly Republican, that many people simply vote for the party. The problem is that our parties have become so polarized that they no longer know how to work with the other party. Is that important? You bet it is. The people of our state, and country, are made up of many parties. It is the responsibility of our lawmakers to serve all people. This means that a politician “of the people, for the people and by the people” is one who can work together with all other lawmakers to craft laws that work for everyone.

In other words, they need to compromise. Compromise is a system where all sides get something that they want and all sides give up something that they want, but it is something that all can live with.

We have been watching a show straight out of Ringling Brothers for the last two years. Personally, I don’t like it.

When you go to the polls, whether you vote Republican, Democrat, Independent, or some other party, please give very serious consideration to the person for whom you are voting.

JOHN SLAUGHTER

Spirit Lake