Dear Sharra, Today is the 3-month anniversary of my announcement that I'm running for President.
Looking back at the past three months - and at the last forty years of my life - I get a deeper understanding of why I'm running and what I want to accomplish in the job.
My candidacy is about 21st century solutions to what are essentially 20th century problems. As Einstein said, we will not solve the problems of the world from the level of thinking we were at when we created them. I don't come from the system that produced so many of America's challenges, either personally or professionally. My expertise is not in treating symptoms, but in discerning their cause and dissolving them from there.
Throughout my career I've been up close and personal with people in hours of their pain. I'm often the one that someone comes to after they've already applied the most expert mechanisms of external problem solving. They had done all that, and still come to their wall. They knew that what needed to change at this point was something deeper. Something inside themselves.
And that is where America is now.
What is most askew in our country is not just our policies, but our principles. We have strayed from the foundational pillars of American democracy, no longer committed to the "self-evident truths" on which we were founded. We're not committed to equality but to meritocracy; we're not committed to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all our citizens, but to access, entitlement, and the pursuit of profit for a few. We have strayed from the higher vision that is the essence of a free society, and the principles on which we purport to stand. The Declaration of Independence is our North Star, and when we deviate from its principles we falter.
We are faltering now.
America will not heal, we will not repair, we will not transform, until we are willing to look in the mirror and recognize what we have allowed to happen to our beloved country. We have allowed ourselves to be lured away from the spiritual values and humanitarian principles at the core of our Declaration, into the cold and sociopathic realm of trickle-down economics. A financial paradigm that puts short term profit for huge corporate entities before the health, safety and well-being of our people and our planet is now our governing principle. We have strayed from Lincoln's description of a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" to a government "of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations." We have disregarded principles that have made us great, and embraced instead principles that have brought us low.
We have allowed desecration of the earth to replace reverence for the earth, the ways of war to override the ways of peace, the economic injustices of profiteering to replace the righteousness of fair profit, and judgment of one another to replace our love of one another.
Having so strayed from our moral center, it is now the task of our generation to turn things around. I believe I'm the person to guide that transformation, calling for a fundamental economic u-turn and a season of repair. The political system that dominates America today is fundamentally averse to such change. It is a morally moribund status quo, controlled more than not by financial forces with no allegiance to our principles but only to their short-term profit.
We the people must intervene now. It is humanitarian values, not crass economic and political calculations, that will repair our wounds. Government should not thwart the dreams of the many by constant acquiescence to the financial interests of the few.
That is why I stand for an Economic Bill of Rights. It is why I stand for universal health care, tuition free college and tech school, free child care, paid family leave, guaranteed sick pay and a living wage and a right to collective bargaining. It is why I stand for a Department of Children and Youth, a Department of Peace, and a war on poverty. These are not things that will bankrupt our country. The problem is that we are morally bankrupt now, and those are policies that will help repair it.
Our political status quo today does more to serve its donors than its own constituents. Even the best of our legislators – and there are extraordinary men and women who try their best every day to change that system – are caged within it. The system, however, is intent on keeping things exactly as they are. The status quo will not disrupt itself.
I hope you will give generously to my campaign so I can. It will not be in opposing what is, but in inspiring what could be, that we will break through the wall and free ourselves from the societal decline that's upon us now. |
In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
Yours in service,
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