Bottom Line: We Need To Be Thinking About How We’re Going To Respond
With this scenario looming, there’s a real need for us to be thinking ahead, both as individuals and as leaders: How will I walk through the potential chaos—in the streets and on social media? How do I want to steer my family and children (or congregation or followers) through this? How do I want to encourage them to interact with the world? What is my responsibility to help them think about all this in advance?
Perhaps my main responsibility is to ensure my friends and family are aware of this season ahead and thinking about it too. But if I am a local, regional or national leader, do I perhaps have a bigger responsibility to help my community accept the legitimacy of the results? (For example, can I pull together or offer to be a part of a nonpartisan, independent commission of other high-profile, local leaders who agree in advance to publicly stand behind whatever my locality certifies are the election results?)
More personally: How do I want to conduct myself during this season? How should I respond in my personal and professional life to the potential for this kind of political and cultural turmoil? We’ll dive into those questions in Part 2.
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