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One of the beautiful things about election season being in the fall is that Thanksgiving season comes upon us. A time that we can rejoice, a time that we can be family, a time that we can put aside our differences and really enjoy each other, perhaps.
One of the things I love about Washington, D.C. is that the fall falls. We have leaves of color. It is beautiful. We wrap up in our coats and scarves. And actually when you go into different restaurants or stores, we say hello to each other. And that’s very, very uncommon here in Washington. It’s one of the differences that I noticed immediately upon moving here to work 10 years ago from southern California where the weather is so consistent that we smile all the time when we go into stores. And so we’re able to cross political lines just by saying “Hello, isn’t it kind of nippy outside?”
Another beautiful thing about this particular season is that then we roll into Advent, a time where we look at ourselves, a time when as a people, we say, “Wait a minute. What can I do to make the world better?” I’m waiting and expecting our savior.
We move then immediately into Christmas season. Those 12 days that we actually come together as a society to say our founders did have ideals rooted in eternal truths.
They had those eternal truths as their guidelines to say we need a limited role of government because we believe people can self-govern, that we need free and open markets because we believe people can be honest and exchange in a wholesome sense. We’re trying to get there. But at least the marketplace allows us to do that.
Going in with a smile, we may get the job and get the wage that we think we want or we believe we deserve without the hand of government.
