This year’s presidential election, has divided our country like nothing else I have experienced in my life. The election has divided families; races and cultures. It has divided women and men; the rich and the poor; neighbor from neighbor. For the last two years, our country has been fractured.
I have been delaying writing this year’s holiday letter for many reasons. I don’t like the topic that I feel compelled to write about; in fact, like most of us, I am tired reading or hearing about it.
Next week we will swear in a new president. It is time that we must reunite as a country, and remember our common belief’s and value’s. I am not saying that any one of us has to give up their principles, but for this country to move forward in these complex and dangerous times we must keep our politicians “feet to the fire”, and remind them who they work for. We must compel these elected officials, to be more civil and accommodating to each other. We must demand that they sit at our nation’s table together, and focus on our shared values, on the issues that unite us, not on those that divide us. I know that in my family, and I believe for most families around the nation, that is what we do every holiday dinner this time of the year.
So to all of my friends, I wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah; Happy Kwanza, and a Happy New Year!
Keith J. Ahlers
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