Letters and feedback: Feb. 25, 2021 Florida Today Partisan focus impedes progress Your Feb. 22 article titled "Brevard GOP leaks voters after Capitol riots. It could cost them at the polls" reinforces the biggest problem in our politics right now: that we the voters are too party-focused and not issue-focused. We are so quick to generalize, mischaracterize and demonize the other side that we lose sight of the real issues we can and should agree on. We have common issues here in Brevard County that cross party lines; business, health care, the IRL, senior programs. When looking at the results of the 2020 nonpartisan races in Brevard, it seems that focusing on the issues resulted in more moderate-leaning wins spanning both sides of the aisle. But at the level of partisan races, too many of us vote GOP or Democratic because that's what we've always done, or we've bought into the national narratives that makes us angry and distrustful of each other rather. That causes our politicians to focus on what will get them elected instead of what's best for us.