27 Elul 5785/September 20, 2025

Rabbi David N. Young

I used to get so excited when the monthly issue of X-Men or Batman was in 3-D. It would be wrapped in plastic, and in the bag with the comicbook one could find a pair of 3-D glasses. You know the kind–cheap white cardboard with a blue lens on one side and a red lens on the other. When we put the 3-D glasses on, the images jumped out at us from the page. What a fun, vibrant, beautiful way to read a comicbook!

Today when I see red and blue in separate lenses it no longer elicits excitement and anticipation of an amazing reading experience. Today red and blue seem like they can only work against each other, each one trying to out-cheat the other, each one using disgusting tactics and exploiting legal loopholes until the people we have chosen to run our country are instead running it into the ground.

And yet, I do believe that there is a way for red and blue to work together again, like those old 3-D glasses. I have faith in a people who can vote out the game players and elect hard working leaders who truly have an agenda for all Americans and not just the ones reading through the lens that voted them in.

May we soon arrive at the day when red and blue work together to make our world vibrant, exciting, and beautiful again.