Dear Citizens,

It’s election season.

Many people try to avoid politics because it’s scary or boring or dispiriting. It’s easy to keep to ourselves and only do our voting on The Voice. But politics is about how we want to live together. What’s more important than that?

My hope for you is that you fully engage in self-government throughout your lives. That means more than just voting. It means learning about the issues, being a good citizen, and running for office.

Abraham Lincoln best summed up what the great experiment of American democracy should look like when he called it a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”