EQUALITY AFTER ELECTION DAY
The Way Forward
Will broken relationships be reconciled after November 3?
The Current Landscape
The past forty-six months have been a maze littered with strained relationships, broken friendships, and a scattering of unfollowed and blocked social media contacts, loosely dubbed friends—all sacrificed on the altar of politics. What remains for the rest of the journey is a basket full of like-minded individuals and a couple of dissenters who have enough sense to keep their mouths shut and post only about cooking, their kids, or their pets. I plan to get the jump on any November 3 jitters by pondering a few questions: What do I do with a basket full of profiles and no bread crumb trail to find my way home? Is there a way for me and my friends and acquaintances to return to that former state of grace where we treated a difference of opinion with deference? Did this thinned-out herd merely outwit, outplay, and outlast the others according to Darwin’s paradigm? Or is it time to cancel my segregation of goats and sheep?
Have I gone too far? Have they gone too far?
For me, the elephant in the room — and the donkey — could be the biggest determinants as to how I’ll proceed. After all, these rivals have been wedged into just about every aspect…
