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ing team. A healthy democracy is an open forum of varied thoughts and views with the majority guiding the way.

The majority rules at the pleasure of the citizenry. A healthy and thriving democracy respects the rights of the citizens with opposing views and promotes lively discussion and debate on the issues. Name-calling and bitterness works at tearing down our precious democracy and calcifies the opposing sides. Nothing is accomplished and the foundations of our democracy are threatened.

One side is not always right or wrong, the other side is not always corrupt or petty. Remember the past when people of different views were accused of being “red” and were blacklisted from making a living. Remember when freedom

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