{"id":49128,"date":"2021-09-05T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49128"},"modified":"2021-09-05T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T15:47:27","slug":"bring-on-the-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49128","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the differences!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/920x920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49129\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/920x920-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/920x920-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/920x920-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/920x920.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am striking a note or two for ideological diversity.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a polarized, deeply divided nation these days. The polarization is being driven by politicians in Washington, in our state capitals, even at our county courthouses; I&#8217;ll give our city halls a pass because almost all of them are non-partisan in nature and the pols we elect to municipal government are ostensibly not driven by partisan political concerns.<\/p>\n<p>I have my bias. Others have theirs. They differ. The folks who hold differing biases are getting pretty darn nasty.<\/p>\n<p>However, all that acknowledged, I do not want everyone to agree with me. I surely don&#8217;t want everyone to agree with those who disagree with me. Back to my point about personal agreement. We should live in a nation full of ideological diversity and at the moment, oh brother, we are, um &#8230; <em>diversified.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A world where everyone thinks the same &#8212; <em>even if they agree with little ol&#8217; me<\/em> &#8212; would be a boring world for certain.<\/p>\n<p>Who wants to be bored to sleep? Not me. I have too much to do!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am striking a note or two for ideological diversity. We live in a polarized, deeply divided nation these days. The polarization is being driven by politicians in Washington, in our state capitals, even at our county courthouses; I&#8217;ll give our city halls a pass because almost all of them are non-partisan in nature and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring on the differences!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[647,7575,3507],"class_list":["post-49128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bipartisanship","tag-ideology","tag-partisanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49130,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128\/revisions\/49130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}