The U.S. Senate chamber in 1873.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
DEC. 11, 2020 | With Early Voting beginning on December 14, today GwinnettForum endorses candidates in the two U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, an election that could change the direction of our country for the next two years.
For what we see as the good of the nation, we endorse the two Democratic choices, the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, for the two Georgia seats in the Senate.
We take this action for one major reason: to give the Democrats control of the U.S. Senate, to help President-elect Joe Biden move the country back toward the center, and to offset some of the damage done to our country during the four years of the inept Trump Administration.
In normal times, we feel our county has the best government when there is shared leadership in the Congress, that is, the House is controlled by one political party, and the Senate is controlled by the other political party.
Yet these are not normal times. Overlapping the bumbling Trump presidency came the COVID crisis. The Trump Administration has constantly been inconsistent in its overall direction, and a stumbling block to progress. It has overturned many programs that were benefiting our country, and then been in a position of poor leadership and constant uneven positioning in dealing with the COVID pandemic.
In short, our country needs new and more aggressive leadership to fight the country’s problems, which Joe Biden can give. Should the Senate have the Republicans in the majority, we can expect continuing attempts to smother the Biden Administration so that immediate and long-term progress will be much slower and more difficult.
By sending two new senators to Washington, Georgia will be able to help move the country forward, and not be caught up with the attempts by Mitch McConnell and die-hard Republican efforts to thwart the Administration.
No nation always runs in a smooth manner. There are always problems, some seeming insurmountable, during any administrations. Good leadership solves these problems. But when one party has the out-and-out goal and determination to make sure a president’s program doesn’t work, that spells trouble for the nation. That’s what we have seen in recent years, often coming from both parties. Our nation doesn’t need more of that.
We need a team approach, though we realize there is not always agreement on many subjects. But if good people are willing to work toward compromised solutions, by talking matters through, and with reasonable compromise, situations can improve.
Let Georgia make history on January 5 by electing two Democrats as senators, to move us out of our doldrums, into a successful Biden presidency.
For 2021, we hope to see a return to a more predictable presidency, where we won’t have to put up with outrageous social media threats by a president, and the country can return to a more conventional time.
Let those of us in Georgia contribute to that by electing the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the U.S. Senate.
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