Democracy Should Work for the People, Not the Party for Itself.

Democracy: Government by the people.

My father was a farmer and a Republican. He raised me to think for myself, not follow the crowd, seek the facts, and not opinion. Democracy, he said, worked for the people by the parties compromising.

When I came of age to vote, the first election was for our local school board. The evening before the election, as I was helping my mother with the supper…