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Better Together: Why Politics Does Not Have to Divide Us

      The single biggest issue in the country right now is hatred, myopia, and a lack of understanding others. This lack of understanding does not exist because we cannot understand each other; rather, it is because we don't want to. People on the left think people on the right are uneducated and hateful, and people on the right think left-wingers are prigs trying to push a gay and trans agenda on kids. Each side thinks the other is trying to send our country to hell and is malevolent. This is not true. We all want the same outcomes (for the most part), but differ on how to get there. Politics today has become the art of reprisals and obstruction of the other side, but things do not have to be this way. To me, politics is the art of the possible!      My university, the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), had an event on April 8 called "Bear Biographies," where you share stories about your identity. I was asked by Amber Wilson to sign up to be a book but ...
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Us-Young People CAN Change the World

      There is nothing that corrodes the morale, strength, and purpose of a generation more than futility and believing that you cannot do anything to change the environment in which you live. Young people have been changing the world for a long time-and still are! Young people are perhaps the most powerful people on the earth right now and forever. We are only as good and as strong as we choose to be.     A man who was 32 wrote most of the Constitution, the document which guides our government on how to govern in the United States. That 32-year-old man was Thomas Jefferson. He was only 32 years of age when he wrote: " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." And Alexander Hamilton was only 21 years old when he became a Founding Father of the United States of America. He was 34 when he founded t...
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