DARE TO LIVE
Each of us desires to be part of something good and wholesome. Each of us desires to be respected in a democracy that is not only political but economic.
Each of us desires a job that enables us to live, feed and care for our family, to feel important and needed. None of us want a hand-out.
But as long the rich man governs, we have what is presented by the politician as a democracy when in fact our better angels are put to flight.
Strive for a country where there are no secrets governing us thus allowing us to restore ourselves.
Too many know a daily life of one struggle after another. Your face is not seen. Your voice is not heard. No one is listening.
Once we were part of the consciousness of our country, but no more are we, producing feelings of emptiness and insignificance. The political process excludes us. Work brings little satisfaction and acknowledgment.
Worrying about bills, health, children, parents, family consume the day creating a chaotic life.
The rich are organized, we are not. The rich are strong, we are not.
We work in our shops, our stores, our whare-houses, our food places, factories, hospitals, paid a wage not supporting a sustainable life.
No say in your work do we have. No different are we than the peasants of Feudal Europe.
Your honor and pride are trampled upon giving us loneliness, as politically expendable people making the holding onto hope difficult with the vitality flowing from it gone.
Each of us wants happiness, to be understood, to care for ourselves and family. We desire a life of meaning, a life that possesses value and matters.
You are needed and important and your spiritual life is good. No longer, I ask you to build a country hostile to you.
Build a country that does not crush hope but builds on it. You are an entity unto yourself running against your need for community. Unlike the rest, unlike the few, you build a world for the few leaving you a world of violence and insecurity.
Depression grows becoming internalized with ill health setting in physically, mentally and spiritually. With this loneliness comes futility, lack of belonging, lack of friendliness. Fatalism sets in. Isolation is your constant companion.
You are ignored except when needed for your work, your money and participation in a war not relevant to you.
There is no one to stand with you. No unions. No leaders. No Moses to lead you out of slavery through the desert to the Promised Land.
The welfare state exists not for you, not for the benefit of the worker, the poor, but for the wealthy. The rich inherent wealth. The poor, the worker, inherent debt.
Does not to be this way.
To the rich and the poor, the white and black, the Republican and Democrat, the Conservative and Liberal, the Christian, Hebrew and Muslin, each of you has value, each matter, each is important. Each I respect
To all possessing hope, a new way awaits you, a new religion, a new country, moving forward with the vitality implicit in hope.
Nothing is stopping us from crossing that Rubicon except ourselves. If we do not take a stand who will?