The 2016 U.S. Presidential election will be one of the most entertaining and significant events this year for all of us in America. The final results will affect our family, work, community, and social relations for literally decades to come.

Our citizen voters will have a series of stark choices to make: inclusion or exclusion, generosity or meanness, gathering together or division, accepting differences or making scapegoats.

The balance on the Supreme Court for the next couple of decades is at stake, among other critical political decisions.

Interest in this election season has been intense on all sides since early 2015, and the rhetoric to date bloody and overblown. If this causes more people to VOTE on election day, Tuesday, November 8, 2016, it will be all the better for our treasured democracy.