An Open Letter to the Citizens of the United States of America
2016 April
If you’re anything like me, the two likely Presidential candidates do nothing for you. As a matter of fact, the whole concept of running for office of President of the United States of America has become more like a Saturday Night Live skit than an actual voters’ choose, statesmen serve process …and I’ve had ENOUGH!
For the last twenty plus years, every government servant elected by the people to serve as President or in Congress has left their political office a millionaire regardless of their party, gender, ethnicity, religion, age or education. It seems like Congress is the place to get a job. Now, let’s examine what it takes to get a job in national politics aside from the vote of the people. Most would consider a law degree a good start, or being a doctor, a veteran, a person with previous public service such as a Mayor or a Governor or a combination of a couple of the above on one’s resume. Every job mentioned requires that an oath be taken to protect and serve the people before you are awarded the privilege of helping the country to tackle its national challenges. But year after year, lawmakers fail us. One of the biggest complaints of the people over the last thirty years is ongoing poverty. The status quo of the masses has changed for the worse, creating a sense of desperation for citizens and a mistrust of our government for both parties. Over and over, American citizens watch with hope as the new election cycle begins. The DNC and the RNCS present new candidates who have all been bought or coopted in some way by foreign nations, large pharmaceuticals, large food corporations, etc. and they assume their assigned positions behind their podium and begin to make promises to the masses that they know they cannot fully keep. Continually, candidates do not give thoughtful and direct answers to direct questions. Because they cannot.
Instead, candidates give nuanced answers allowing “wiggle room” if and when a better opportunity for themselves or their friends come along which benefits them for their next campaign. The candidates that are backed by the RNC and the DNC are supposed to be the best persons for the job, and yet more often than not they’ve been bought long before we ever know who they are and so the masses must settle for the crumbs. Thus those that serve us and say they love America are intentionally keeping us poor and pocketing money at our detriment. We’ve been given a lunchbox with no food or spoiled food. It’s no wonder that we are fighting each other. We are HUNGRY!
The Founding Fathers of the Nation were not all Christian, but they each believed they had been created and that there was a God. These men put their differences and greed aside for the good of the people. The people being elected today might have a love for the American citizens, BUT they love themselves MORE! Furthermore, the media feeds their greed. Why share stories of different races helping each other when racial hatred draws better ratings? Television executives know it too. Their homes are decked with Italian marble and the streets are stained with our blood.
Every election cycle hundreds of millions of dollars are spent trying to get a certain candidate in the White House. If the candidates, SUPERPACS and the DNC/RNC cared about the people they would change this horrible waste of money, self-aggrandizing and hate-filled rhetoric on elections and use it to boost the economy and the citizens. Instead, hundreds of millions are spent on two people! Yes, ultimately, two! The RNCP candidate and the DNC candidate, which demands the question: “Why?” Before television became the American way of life, we had a better quality of leadership. I’m talking about their abilities to lead a Nation and be willing to suffer with the citizens when the citizens suffer. We, as citizens, do many things on others timetable when it should be done on ours such as seeing a Doctor. The patient needs a specialist when the patient needs one and shouldn’t have to submit to a “Consultation” which is in my opinion ‘legal extortion’. The same with politicians. I have made multiple visits to see my Senator and not once has he been present at any meeting. The only time I ever see them is when they are campaigning and asking for funds. Ironic, no? I laid out multiple reasons for his required presence and the person with me said, “That’s not how to play the game.” Well, my life is not a game and neither is yours.
With all this new technology why isn’t the election for President of the United States run on the web? Why do we sit through “debates” night after night of bullying and lies when it should be about us? The showmen/women have made it about them, and we have let them. The election, Ladies and Gentlemen, is about US! Not them. They work at our pleasure or not at all.
Ratings and greed is the answer! We fill their pockets the bigger the crowd that is drawn. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his own children have Ipads because it limits creativity, and many other tech gurus are living are the same way. Still today I don’t carry a cell phone. I don’t like them. I can afford one, but I like time to think without interruptions. At some point in time, you did too. When did politicians become more important than ourselves and when did we lose the ability to speak for ourselves and stand up for ourselves? Having a political candidate speak for us is like playing the game Telephone. You all sit in a circle and one person says a sentence to their neighbor but you can’t repeat what you’ve said and so the second person tells their neighbor what they think they heard in the same fashion until the person that started the message hears the final result. The result is normally laughable. (like 1,000 page bills that get passed in Congress without being read but are voted on based on party lines)
Speaking of party lines…how many people live in the USA? …and of those people how many are Black?...and of those Black Citizens living in the USA how many are women?...and of those Black citizens living in the USA that are women how many are Mothers?...and of those Black citizens living in the USA that are women and Mothers how many are single parents?...and of those Black people living in the USA that are women, Mothers and single parents how many are jobless?...and of those…how many are sick with chronic illnesses?
An example: If you have a family of 4 kids and one is healthy and a boy, one is healthy and a girl and the first 2 choose to be Moslem, the 3rd is born very sick and needs lifelong care and a 4th comes along that is healthy and is Catholic but gets less care and attention than the first two would you pass one rule in your house that treats them ALL THE SAME? Of course not! America is OUR house, collectively! Why did we pass one BIG BILL to treat a Nation of Unique and Diverse citizens the same? Diversity can be a strength if we let it be. The motto of Indonesia where President Obama spent much of his youth is “Bhineka Tunggal Ika” which means “Unity in Diversity”.
Furthermore, why should we even see the candidates at all before we vote and why can’t we vote from our phones or on-line: an identified IP address that acknowledges your Social Security Number? This would save so much money and would level the playing field by forcing the candidates to rely on their leadership skills and not their looks or celebrity friends.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in a wheelchair when America was bombed at Pearl Harbor and we lost over 2,000 American lives that day. America looked to him to successfully lead us through World War II even though he was in a wheelchair. President Roosevelt was a Father to the Nation when it was suffering and suffered right along with the people but met with them every night thru the radio to comfort them just like our own fathers would have. Why aren’t we trying to elect someone more like that? A Mother? A Father? Someone that will go without, too, when the Nation’s people are hungry? My point, friends, is that “It takes a great heart to be a great leader, not a great degree.”
My fellow citizens, I put forth to you that none of our current crop of candidates would go without for you. I put forth to you that to elect either would serve to fatten their own pockets and empty yours.
I love America and I love you, the people. I have many ideas that could serve to build up our nation again.
I don’t have a fancy law degree, but I have a servant’s heart. I don’t have millions of dollars or celebrity, but I give as if I did. I don’t have children of my own, but I would listen to each of your needs as if you were my own.
I am a woman and I am running for President of these United States of America.
With Respect & Gratitude,
A private citizen unless I’m called upon to serve
