By Andy Brack, editor and publisher    | There’s a reason that a horse wears blinders:  So it won’t get spooked by something weird that’s outside of its vision tunnel.

All across our country, too many people are wearing blinders on an array of issues that is unraveling the fabric of the American way of life. We are ignoring big problems, hoping they’ll just go away.  But they get worse and worse.

Instead of proactively confronting issues from race and gun violence to immigration reform and the decay of our democracy, we keep drinking from the font of ignorance.