It’s 60 days out from the national election and we are in the midst of our annual HOA board elections. A few days ago, a nearby neighbor replaced his American Flag with a rather prominent “Blue Lives Matter” banner flag. There are a lot of nextdoor.com postings about people stealing political signs mixed in with random comments like “Positivity, pass it on.” Sign stealing is a form of intolerance that has to stop because Hate should have no home in the Crosstimber Community. Otherwise, our children will learn to become intolerable adults. Frankly, I suspect that we are going to need to give each other a little breathing room during this 2020 election system. Let’s try to give each other a wide berth.
In closing, I believe the COVID-19 global pandemic and the resulting 200K death toll in the US is the universe saying the same thing twice: “What affects one of us directly, affects all of us indirectly.” - MLK. This is on all topics: Race, Religion, and Politics. Until we (all of us, not just Americans) start respecting points of view that differ from our own, political signs will keep getting stolen and home owners will squabble. Let’s keep it classy. It would be nice to be the one neighborhood that doesn’t have to post anything on Nextdoor about stealing each others signs this year because nobody decides to do it. It would be really nice if we just chatted with our families (husbands, wives and children) about what behavior we expect from them before someone else’s right to free speech gets trampled.
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