I share in the frustration of many citizens today.
There’s too much information and too many opinions to be able to sort truth from fiction.
I’ve developed a strategy that seems to help my aging brain make sense of issues I care about.
I endeavor to pay attention to only the exact words being uttered, blocking out who said it and how I feel about that person or that source for news.
Humans are influenced by how we feel or what we already think about who is speaking, i.e. don’t trust them or really like them.
I wish someone, more clever than I, would make a list of exact quotes that people say and publish them without credit to the speaker.
I’d like to have the opportunity to decide whether I agree with these statements or not, not knowing who said them.
Every adult citizen in our country has one mandatory job.
That job is to be an informed voter.
I’m struggling with setting aside my own biases so that I can think critically and honestly about what words I read or hear spoken.
I’m hoping that there is someone reading this who might take up the task of making that list for me.
Linda Benson
Sequim