Michele, I remember back in September when we meditated on the Senate after the Midterms, I'd seen a horizontal bar graph with various colors in it. The dominant color was red, which is why I felt the Senate would stay red. But I also saw a shock of purple and wondered about its meaning.
I agree it's good to try to join forces with them when there is a policy that benefits both sides. But I am wary of them the way I'd be wary of putting my head in a tiger's mouth.
I just read the article and saw that it was 44 EX-senators who urged bipartisan unity. Not current senators holding office.
Their point changes the meaning for me of purple, which is to view each side as opponents, not enemies.
They are raising the alarm on the danger of Trump's attitude that anyone who criticizes him or works against his policies is an enemy -- who needs to be locked up. This contrasts with the Bush, Sr. attitude that they'd be simply an opponent - someone who disagrees with you but who is entitled to oppose you, as in a competition where we advocate good sportsmanship.
Changing that attitude alone could pull our republic back from the brink. Eventually Donald Trump and his fascistic attitude will become an anachronism.
After more than a century's battle over the environmental protection of Oregon's wild areas, President Trump signed a bipartisan bill today and a divide was crossed today by the creation of The Oregon Wildlands Act.
He brought closure to a decades long effort to protect 30,000 acres of old growth rainforest that has been crying out for awareness and validation in Oregon's coastal mountains and designates more than 250 miles of Oregon Rivers under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act protecting wildlands and riverways.
As part of a 120 public lands bill, it brings tears to eyes and my longing heart to see bipartisan purple on behalf of Mother Earth no matter how belatedly it might be viewed or why it was voted into law.
It has the possibility to create and impacts parks, monuments, and forests across our entire nation. And best of all it sailed through both tbe House and Senate and was signed into law by Trump yesterday.
A rare, rare moment of hope and joy some of it impacting my and my Oregon family future here in Oregon by creating a scaled down version of Senator Ron Wyden's Oregon Wildlands act that he has fought hard and long for and part of a fight begun in the 1880s for this coastal area of Oregon coastal treasures called the Devil's Staircase Wilderness. An interesting name you must admit but our coastal areas have many other unusual names such as the Devils Punchbowl etc. for unusual scenic, wild and often very beautiful but unpredictable spots.
Trump may have wanted a connection to Teddy Roosevelt by following in his Republican footsteps who stood up for and not against the environment.
Please click my link for more details and to understand why even Wyden's efforts battled previous Republican agendas to get to this historic point of hope
Ok, so it is not exactly "purple" but he is a LONG time state legislature switching parties. He seems rather "purple" to me.
Bless you, Lovendures for keeping this purple thread going.
And yes, thats exactly how we mix red and blue and get purple. Or one of the many ways but a great good news purple way!
Bit by bit, the waves of color will synchronize and become one "new" blended color!