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Yesterday was President Trump's 71st birthday and the day I was finally brave enough to create a Twitter account. Sadly, it was also the day that Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others were shot or injured during practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game - a community tradition that locals have enjoyed each summer since 1909. It seems that us-them, political party type anger was at least part of the motivation for the attack.
Even if most of us haven't been tweeting, we all put messages out into the world daily. TV news coverage today is discussing what we should and should not say and who is to blame for the public tone of rhetoric and its relationship to violence. Many are pointing fingers at others and, thankfully, some are challenging themselves and all of us to do better.
We're Americans so, I'm hoping, we will protect our freedom of speech and hold ourselves accountable to higher levels of discourse. If we elevate our behavior and create positive prestige, it is likely others will follow.
Happy to hear that the baseball game tonight is raising over 1 million dollars for youth programs in Washginton DC ... something to be impressed by ! Something prestigious to emulate !
Game is about to start ...............
What will each of us "tweet" after this "just symbolic" or "could be transformational" moment" ?
