Tuesday’s Election Results in NH – Stop calling for unity, and give people time to collect themselves. Really, just ease up. There are many people posting on Facebook reflecting on Tuesday night’s outcomes. Politics is NH’s official sport, and as such there is a great deal of political passions that others states can’t even imagine. Many people are still reflecting on the results of some very hard fought primaries. Give them this moment to take a breath and mend. The passions held dear by an individual are not based on just liking one candidate over another, they are based on principle. To ask people to unify immediately after the election is a mistake, and unnecessary. Remember, when Obama, Kuster, Porter, and Hassan won in 2012, they called for unity. How many of you answered that call? Why not? Principles. To publicly demand that a person put aside their principles now, the very principle many of you respect and admire, is to ask a person to abandon their core values. The sting of the defeat may hurt, but to ask a person to put aside everything they believe in is insulting. The call for unity is an exercise in self-preservation as a party mechanism, which is fine if the party is all you care about, but not as a matter of principle. To merely say we are better than the other guys, when all of us know that is not true, serves to marginalizes and insult people whose intentions are noble, grounded in beliefs greater than any one individual or party. Those of you calling for unity, please just stop it, you are not helping. To the winning candidates that know unity is needed to win in November, prove yourself, earn the votes. And if a person chooses not to vote for, just know that it is not the voters fault, but the candidate’s positions that are at fault. That is what elections are really all about. Principles, not party.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:06:32 +0000
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