Election's over: It's time to get back to business

In our city and school elections, the voters have spoken, the winners have been congratulated, and those who got fewer votes (spare me using the word "losers") have conceded. Nobody who puts his or her name on the line is a loser. In our nation's 231-year-old democracy, those with fewer votes have always conceded, until the presidential election of 2020, but let's not go there.