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OPINION: Who you voted for matters
Politics shouldn’t be playing with people’s lives

Last week during the election, I spotted an interesting trend going through social media. Online, people were reposting images reading “It doesn’t matter who you voted for this election, we are still friends,” or “Not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, etc. respect others’ opinions.” The problem with this flawed logic is they seem to claim that politics really don’t matter and are a trivial thing to end friendships over.

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OPINION: Democracy takes patience
We are eager about the election results, but things take time

This year marks an unprecedented time, full of surprises, confounds and historical events. And as much of a ride 2020 has been, an election year tops it off. As eager as we are to receive results that will solidify our future, we must be patient and know these ballots take time.

OPINION: Talking politics at the dinner table
Why we should be having political conversations with the people we love

Growing up in a very political family, the current president or hot democracy headlines were a topic I remember hearing about more than most things at our dinner table. Both my parents had similar yet different views which were for the most part conservative-leaning. Some nights dysfunction would become chaotic, but honestly, I had no clue what Republicans and Democrats were when I was eight, let alone how many branches of government there were, so the occasional heated disagreements were practically a foreign language to me. Looking forward, my parent’s current dinner table debates are a very different picture.