Rounding up the voices

So much has been said following the incident at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., last week. 
While the News Letter Journal feels it is best to provide some opinion and insight into what has unfolded across our nation in the last year, we felt it appropriate to use the words of journalists and editors across the state. Why reinvent the wheel?
As you read these words and rethink all of the emotions that you have felt as you have watched the news in recent weeks, we hope you find the common message displayed through each of these pieces. 
Instead of focusing on the bad and the ugly, it is time to recognize as a people that we are all guilty of disrespect and not listening to what others have to say. There once was a time that two sides could sit at the same table without throwing the same insults back and forth at each other, yet those days seem to be gone. 
With social media and news coming in full speed through your phone or any other piece of technology, it is important to remember that there are two sides to every story. So many people have forgotten to open their ears instead of their mouths. 
We are all guilty, and it is time we all recognize that. It is time to look at your neighbors, those on the different side of the political spectrum, than you and those that you have condemned for their beliefs and realized that we are all in this together. 
Whether it is local or nationwide, there is a no doubt that there is extreme disconnect in our communities. We have become a society that doesn’t listen or try to understand and people seem quicker to judge than to be reasonable. 
Nobody is perfect, we all know that. It is time that we come together and realize that we can accomplish so much more if we stop condemning people for their beliefs and try to undestand where they are coming from. 
 
“Individual commitment to a group — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
— Vince Lombardi