Let's Do It The Right Way And Do It At The Ballot Box

Neighbor- I want to lead by condemning all violence that has broken out in the Middle East this week - any attacks that risk a single civilian life are unconscionable and never the answer. This issue is not black and white and there are infinite shades of gray complicated by both the needs for self-defence and self-determination. Though I have few answers and there are many many more informed people on the Israel-Palestine struggle than me, if someone were to ask me anyway I would say it's always best to err on the side of decentralizing power and loving our neighbors. At the same time, this is a fight that only Israelis and Palestinians can resolve - it's not our fight to fix and we have plenty of inequality and violence at home in New York and America to worry about first. Next I want to throw this campaign's weight behind our very own Mr. Campaign Manager - Tony Senatore. The two of us met in a sociology class in 2016 and never stopped analyzing the nuances from politics to the human condition. For any Blue Dog Democrats on the list, his article this week <a href = https://www.merionwest.com/review-stephan-haggard-and-robert-kaufmans-backsliding/ target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Review: Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman’s “Backsliding”</a> has great insight into how Democrats are not perfect enough to legitimately dismiss the entire Right. My favorite part is when Tony argues: <i>Men and women left in the cold by globalization amid the backdrop of rising inequality have come to realize that traditional politicians have been ignorant of their needs. They have been longing for political leaders willing at least to acknowledge—if not solve—their problems. Regardless of geographic location, people want jobs; access to quality education; secure borders; and safe communities.</i> I would say something similar but slightly less elegantly - the government's corrupt. The government's corrupt, the world's unfair, and violence is never the answer so some problems are left with only one solution - beating them at the ballot box. This time around I think winning at the ballot box looks like electing someone with systemic solutions to corruption because how much longer can we try to fix the same problems with the same corrupt system? In the decentralized, Ira Seidman https://www.decentralizenyc.com/