LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

The price of silence can prove very high as other voices fill the space with rancor and division.

As history teaches, there is a vast difference between opposing an idea and opposing the person who holds that idea. The one is the stuff from which democratic debate is generated, the other is the stuff from which segregation and antisemitism are fashioned. Any society that equates or confuses the two will find itself on a perilous path.

165 years ago, the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, declared

“A house divided against itself cannot stand”

It would take a civil war to replace division with union, a cautionary history for our time.

Recent events in the Middle East have seen a resurgence of antisemitism, perhaps the most pernicious form of identity politics. That such voices are often heard on American college campuses is especially disturbing as that is where free and open debate should be embraced.

To combat this assault on our constitutional right of assembly and free speech we don’t need to silence anyone but make our voice heard. We too can assemble, if not in the streets, then at the dinner table or wherever else we might choose to gather. There we can speak out against prejudice. Not to do so would make us complicit by our silence.

-A message from our Republican friends in the LD 15 PAC-

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