LISTEN-To Increase The Volume Of Our Votes

Beacons of Common Sense

We consider free speech to be our most fundamental right, and it should remain so. It is first on the list of Amendments for a reason.  However, there is also a required connection.  We have a responsibility to listen.  While the listening responsibility isn’t explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution, it is nonetheless a critical 50% of the equation.

Why? Listening means we are willing to change.  We must be willing to let the other person, argument, or viewpoint change us.  To think otherwise is not to listen.  If we all come with a commitment to listen, we will indeed meet in “the middle of the road,” and we will build a powerful COMMON SENSE FOR AMERICA.  Then, when we vote, we’ll all have confidence that the best decisions are made.

So, it’s time for us, “WE THE PEOPLE,”  to quiet our voices and become calm. It’s time for “WE THE PEOPLE” to increase the volume of our VOTES.  Whether we are liberal or conservative, left or right, man or woman, young or old, no matter our color, no matter our custom, no matter where we’ve come from, no matter our language, no matter our religion, no matter our sexual orientation, and no matter what divides us or makes us different from each other, it’s time for all of us to put aside these labels and create a label-free zone for all humans.  

It’s time to return to our founding principles as Americans in the United States of America, and in this great return, take a greater step forward.  It’s time for each of us to awaken our sense of CIVIC responsibility and become “WE THE PEOPLE” again.

. . .  remember that America’s best days aren’t behind her.   America’s best days are ahead of her.  They have always been and will always be.

David

Copyright © [2025] by David William Wygant. All rights reserved.  

IT'S TIME

These are difficult times, but we can take heart in our strength.  Many among us daily risk everything to help the few.  They work on our streets, in our hospitals, and generally our communities.  Some have sworn to serve and protect us from foreign aggressors.  They are all heroes.  Now, especially in this "voting season," all of us must rise up.  It’s our turn now, and our duty now.  There are changes that “WE THE PEOPLE,” must make. 

  

”We the People" (you and me) hunger for leadership, honesty, and the re-emergence of public service.  We don’t need more politicians who accumulate power and enrich themselves.  We have too many of those, and many are corrupt.  We need public servants to lead us.  We need public servants to work together, and to inspire us.  Elective office must be about people and public service, not power and politics.  The currency of our actions needs to be honesty, not influence or money.  Only then can WE focus on what we can become, and what we can achieve.  

In all of this, WE have a part to play too.  We need to stop peering outside ourselves.  Stop pointing our fingers.  We should spend more time looking at the person in the mirror, because what WE become as a nation begins with each of us individually.  Each of us, and all of us as a country, in support of our freedoms and liberties, need to focus on our individual responsibilities, and our individual actions.  

Indeed, it’s time to get back to basics.  It’s time to remember a few simple things.  Let’s begin by resurrecting two old, but important and timeless virtues. THEY are the virtues of HONESTY AND PUBLIC SERVICE.  

Let's all vote on November 5th!

David W. Wygant