In response to a Nov. 22 letter, “if Trump is a rich man’s president whose policies only help affluent, why are Democrats alarmed?
“Why don’t they just keep their mouth shut and enjoy the largess?”
It may come as a shock to that writer, but there are people in red states and blue states, in every income bracket, Democrats and Republicans, progressives and conservatives, who recognize that income inequality is a serious threat to our republic.
They want a better world for everyone, a country that provides health care for everyone, a nation devoted to slowing climate change.
Caring human beings will not “keep their mouths shut and enjoy the largess” while our population of homeless men, women and children could fill eight NFL stadiums every night, just one glaring symptom of the human cost of income inequality.
People live in communities and communities across the country are pioneering innovative ways to meet the challenges we all face, building connections and opening their hearts in the process.
It’s more blessed to give than to receive, we’ve been told.
It’s also more fun, more energizing, more interesting to expand the creative ways we can give to each other, to our communities, our country and our planetary home.
Step outside the red and blue boxes and look around.
Talk with someone who doesn’t look like you.
Explore how empathy and compassion can expand your life.
It’s way more fun out here, out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing.
Diana Somerville,
Port Angeles