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<\/a><\/p>\nI am not looking for perfection from my leaders –
\nrepresentatives,
\nsenators,
\njudges –
\nyou do not have to agree with me on every policy point.
\nYou can play poker or golf with people I find reprehensible.
\nI don’t care.<\/p>\n
You don’t have to be a person without flaws,
\nor who has never made a mistake.
\nYou can be someone like me
\nwho has sometimes made choices
\nyou are ashamed of.
\nI don’t care.<\/p>\n
What I care about is that you are a decent human being.
\nI care that you don’t judge others while hiding your own perversions.
\nI care that \u00a0you \u00a0pit \u00a0“we the people”
\nagainst one another\u00a0for your personal gain\u00a0or ideology.
\nThat’s what I care about.<\/p>\n
I want you to share a larger vision of who we can be.
\nI want you to stop\u00a0cheating.
\nStop gerrymandering
\nStop suppressing voters
\nStop impeding voting rights.<\/p>\n
I want you to be outraged when the President
\ninvites foreign adversaries to interfere
\nwith our elections.<\/p>\n
I want you to be decent enough to stand up
\nto\u00a0a man who is destroying the fabric\u00a0of our nation,
\nwho invites division,
\nencourages hate,
\ndespises diversity,
\nworships money.<\/p>\n
I just want you to be decent. We all do.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am not looking for perfection from my leaders – representatives, senators, judges – you do not have to agree with me on every policy point. You can play poker or golf with people I find reprehensible. I don’t care. You don’t have to be a person without flaws, or who has never made … Continue reading To Our Lawmakers: I’m Not Looking for Perfection<\/span>
\nTo put the nation before your self interests.
\nTo be someone your mom would be proud of.
\nTo be a person \u00a0of integrity.
\nI don’t need you to be perfect.
\nBut I really<\/em> need you to just \u00a0be decent .<\/p>\nDefinition of decent<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n