Editor's Note: Mike Geraci has previously been contracted by the City of Victor as a communications strategist and has no affiliation with The Valley Signal.
One of the greatest strengths of American democracy is the ability of citizens to organize around issues they care about. Victor "watchdogs" Collective PAC is evidence that grassroots organizing remains alive and well as America marks its Semiquincentennial.
But the Founders didn't just create a system that empowered citizens to organize. They intended a republic that depended on citizens exercising that power through reasoned deliberation, evidence, civic virtue, and the ability to disagree without assuming the worst of one another.