The hard reality

It is a hard reality when you seek to win a hard fought campaign, such as my attempt to win a NC Senate seat this week against the incumbent Republican, and it ends with a loss.

How could the people see otherwise? While the role of evil pundits and big money is part of the equation, the larger truth is that people of good will are very different and not everyone has the same set of priorities.

Conservatism is a legitimate philosophy that emphasizes frugality and individual responsibility above the school of liberalism's emphasis on a social justice that seeks a collective rightousness not dependent on one's worthiness.

There are political parasites, of course, that know how to manipulate these dissimilar philosophies and they do so for their own selfish ends. And these are the toxic actions we see in campaign misbehavior, secret funding and ad distortions that zoom in on our prisms of truth and make us more afraid, angry or extreme than we might be if we had the message given to us in an unalloyed way.

How do we combat this madness? I am not sure, but the words of President John F. Kennedy comes to mind, who said: "With history the final judge of our deeds, with a pure conscience our only true reward, let us go forth to lead the land we love, knowing that God's work must truly be our own."

Keep the faith, my BlueNC friends, and be ever ready to fight the good fight in the days and years to come.

Charles Malone