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When I see a veteran or a person in a military uniform, I don't ask if they are Republican or Democrat. I say, “Thank you.”
When I interact with minorities, the physically and mentally challenged or the elderly at my work, I don't ask which party they belong to. I ask how I can help them.
When I see other local growers like myself bringing fruits and vegetables to the food bank for the homeless and food insecure, we talk about crops, the weather or our families. What we don't talk about is politics.
As a lifelong Democrat, I have always believed that all people deserve an equal opportunity. That's part of the definition of a Democrat. Everyone is equal. But when politics enters the conversation, rifts start to develop among people. And rifts are what keep issues from being solved and people from being treated equally.