It is 2008, as a nation we have: NO economic strategy, NO energy policy, NO exit strategy, No cure for cancer, NO cure for AIDS, and I am not convinced that you, my elected and appointed officials, are working on it. The narrative that you have provided our country is grand and ominous. You must listen to the people; we have your best interests at heart as well. When all the people of America are doing well, it is at that moment, when this union of states achieves fruition of its greatest purpose: the “American dream.”
I ask for what the Constitution, and the “Bill of Rights” affords me as an American citizen and as a human being. What I most love about the founding fathers of this country is not the fruit of what they created together but the fact that, they themselves were imperfect, but what they shared in common was their desire to be better human beings. They so desperately wanted every American to share the “American Dream.” I want most of all, in my heart of hearts, to believe that my government—you, are working for the people rather than against the people because that is the primary principal this country was based upon. Without our government on our side the American Dream is lost.
We, as a country, have never been perfect but, in my lifetime, I have never seen such a blatant disregard for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the intentions of the founding fathers as I have seen under the current administration. Nor have I seen this country embrace the ideals of torture, imperialism, or capital above compassion so publicly and with such little regard for our place in the international community. I want to once again reside in a country, which has earned the right to consider itself noble.
A day will come when America’s needs will require her allies to aid her so that she may maintain her standing. When that time comes, I hope the world will remember this country in ways that speak to our ability to make mistakes and rise above the shadows to then light the way for progress. In the eyes of the global community, the founding fathers and every past president that has served this country: the path we have carved in recent years is wrong.
If we do not change, we ARE the failed American experiment.
