Opinion : The winning is in the Party

Just a portion of the voters in Vinton on Tuesday night, patiently waiting to vote

Usually by the end of the day, I'm in my jammies and settled in for a long night of work. It wasn't any different on Tuesday. I ventured out to check on a couple of things that I needed to look at and I swung by the skate center.

The lot was packed full of cars, which made me smile.

There was a line past the door. That made me smile.

I walked in to hear everyone visiting and laughing together. That made me smile. 

I went to the courthouse which had a string of voters who were exiting the door. That made me smile.

Cars were all over town coming and going, it felt a bit like a holiday out there. And that made me smile. 

Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the city was preparing for riots. Businesses were boarding up. Portland, Oregon on the opposite side of the country is also in survival mode and boarding their stores up. The state of Washington had already called out the national guard. 

In Vinton, we all agree to disagree. We vote and life goes on. Yes, we all have our opinions as seen on this page, but hopefully, after Tuesday's election, we can all relax a bit, or a whole bunch.  We've seen through so many different scenarios that the state of our neighborhoods rely solely on us. The "government" doesn't make the country better, we do. We are what makes this country awesome.

Quite frankly all of the scare tactics poured out by the media trying to get us all to hate each other is pretty annoying. The idea that each side hates the other is quite frankly a load of, ummm smelly stuff. I see our community as a mix of a lot of sweet people. People that don't agree 100% with each other, if we did, that would be boring. Who wants to have friends that think exactly like you do? 

Nah, in Vinton, we've got this. We showed up to the polls, we voted, we high-fived each other and went home. Today we all got up, went to work, and life isn't any different. So let's all just relax, look out the window, smile at the neighbor and give them a wave. Whatever you do, don't let someone you don't even know tell you about the people in Vinton, ever again. 

After all, what do they know?