 Growing up down there, I came to believe that everyone is inherently a good person, that it should be incredibly easy to vote, and that our democratic institutions were mostly run by people with selfless, caring hearts. That guns should only be for hunters, police, and military, and that a progressive society otherwise wouldn't need them. Overall, though, I believe that truth and love reign supreme most of the time, and that we would figure things out together as one people. Because I believe this, I didn't get involved in Anchorage politics until several years before Mayor Bronson's honorable tenure.