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As of this writing, the 2020 presidential election is undecided.

Four key battleground states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia are counting tens

of thousands of absentee ballots today.

Democrats expanded their majority in the House of Representatives by at least five seats.

Control of the Senate will come down to races in Maine, North Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia.

While we wait for further results, here's what we do know.

The health of our democracy depends on how we relate to each other once the election is over.

On January 27, 1838, in one of his first major speeches,

Abraham Lincoln addressed the perpetuation of our political institutions. He stated,

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us,

it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come

from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of

free men, we live through all time, or die by suicide. What must you and I do in these tumultuous days to help our nation

live through all time?

Writing in Christianity today, Bonnie Christian notes that our Lord warned us against both malice and murder.

She then comments,

The rejection of love that motivates us to murder someone, Jesus said, is just as real and grave a sin when it leads us to despise her. By that standard, America has been at Civil War for some time.

Her evidence, negative partisanship, is on a decades-long rise,

while Americans who lean toward one major party and its platform increasingly believe members

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