It's a sad realization to come to, that the system we have all grown up with is in fact the reason that we are all dissatisfied. Though times have changed, human nature never has, and it's time to embrace our bright and shining future as free Americans, rather than cling to the empty shell of historical significance. There is so much potential for positive, and real growth it cannot be ignored. So let me ask you who read this a rhetorical question: Why do you grovel under the table, for the scraps and crumbs that fall, when you could be pulling up a seat at the banquet? To the Black Caucus: why don't you stop hiding in the shadows of the Democrats and stand up, it's your turn to be center stage, if you're ready to walk into the lime light. The blacks in this country have given America some incredible innovations and gifts, including the single greatest cultural influence that America has ever produced: Jazz. You should not have to ASK the Democrats for anything. Own your destiny; America is ready and willing to follow any man or woman of any color who is worthy to lead us. To the Unions: why do you insist on spending hundreds of millions of dollars in member dues getting Democrats elected, who never really help out the Union or it's members? How's that repeal of NAFTA coming? Not well? Well that's not surprising; we have all seen how well it worked out for you in Detroit. A fact you will be reminded when America starts importing Chinese cars. Why don't you just grow a set, and form your own party that actually looks after its members rather than panders to the lies of the professional politician, after all isn't that one of the whole points of a Union? To you religious focused conservatives laying in anguish, and leaderless in the Republican camp: you will never find a professional politician that's going to care about your morals or your God, just about your money. Take it back. Take all of it, and form your own party of righteous God-fearing followers, and show this country how REAL men and women of God live and work and love in this world, rather than the adulterous thieves that lead you in the Republican Party now. To the Gays and Lesbians: stop thinking that any professional politician will help you unless it helps themselves first. Be proud of yourselves, and make a party that will care about, support and fight, for who you are. To the Environmentalists: your cause will get mowed down, and any law necessary will be repealed if it ever endangered a professional politician's chance for re-election. The economy will always take precedence over your beliefs, and do not believe otherwise. Unless you are willing and able to defend your ideology directly, everything you have gained, you will loose when the chips are down. How about you Free Market supporters in both parties? Those who judge success by the Return On Investment, or by the economic impact that the windbags on Capital Hill have on your wallet. Why do you insist on continued support and contributions for a group of people that have no qualm taxing you, me, and every business into bankruptcy in this country? Where is the profit in that? There is NO long term profitability for individual investors in a government run economy. Form a Free Market Party to promote strong business growth, entrepreneurship and tax cuts, because the professional politician will destroy the economy to keep their own personal power.
Let this letter be a statement, a sounding board of things to come. Of a new and fresh idea of what America WILL become, and greatness we have yet to achieve. An unimaginable hope for tomorrow and a better world for us today, our children and the future generations we have yet to inspire. Fear of change will only mean that you are willing to let others determine your fate. In life change may be the only constant, but we can choose to make it a good change for once. Do not let the pundits in life blind you hearts to this truth. Remember this always about them: it requires neither courage nor creative thought when you criticize from afar, and have nothing to bring to the table of discussion, except the word NO. There is still hope for today and for tomorrow. Hope is a dangerous word though, one of the most dangerous in the English language. Without faith you see, hope will die in its promise. I have no faith in our so-called leaders. Actually, I have less than zero faith, and I cannot even pretend to go through the motions anymore. But, I have faith in YOU, and I don't even know you, but I do know the Human Spirit you possess. I know that you are capable of amazing and awe inspiring wonders. You, the individual, capable of incredible love, generosity and compassion. You, the individual, ready and willing to live life to the fullest and pursue new and exciting challenges. You, the individual, who is willing to care and provide for not just your family, but look after others, even if you do not live with great excess. You, the individual, with your big heart, your big dreams, and your hunger for life. I do have faith in that, and that my fellow citizens, is why I do in fact have a great and never-ending hope for everyday. I have faith in you to live your dreams, and embrace a destiny that allows you to grow into something larger and better than you ever thought possible. Faith, that by each of us digging deep into our souls and finding our own unique path to travel, even though our paths might eventually part one from another, we can still thrive and love life. Faith, that we can in fact find unity in our diversity, because we have peace in our hearts with ourselves, rather than an enforced pacification through propaganda, where only the jailers are happy. Only we, the freedom loving, ruggedly independent and unique individuals in this incredible country are capable of this. Though our potential might have tarnished under the velvet prison we are forced to submit to, its light still shines bright. It is innate in our very fiber, and an undeniable part of our human equation, as unique as laughter or compassion. It is not lost; it lives in the hopes and dreams of each of us, fighting to live life to its fullest. That fight, and our struggles, can bring the brightest tomorrow ever written into being, and that is still within our grasp. So I ask you, my countrymen: are you willing to grab that tiger by the tail and see where it goes?
I have faith you will.
I am writing and sending this letter to three groups of people. First to my completely worthless Senators and Congressman: Richard Burr, Kay R. Hagen and Heath Schuler respectively. May each of you be jobless after the next election, and may the coming change of the concept of the Republic sweep your name into the trash where it belongs, and may you live a long life and see your place in history smashed into dust.
I am sending this letter also to news organizations, though I feel it will fall on deft ears and blind eyes. The hate for the parties runs very deep in those institutions, and real truth is often just a speed bump for a media that is more interested in being a part of the affair, rather than being the referee, but one can dream. Perhaps this will be published, but as it stands today, I think very few would be willing to do so. It was the dream of our forefathers to have a press that was a terror to the political machine and to hold elected officials honest, yet it seems that our current press is more often than not a cheerleader, while claiming impartiality. This is why it looses market share everyday. People respect honesty, even if they don't agree with it. Be bias and be honest with yourself and your readers, people will always respond to those that champion causes openly and honestly. Perhaps in the coming evolution, the obvious party affiliations and old hatreds of the press will finally be broken, and the media will again embrace this concept of honesty and openness in their personal bias. Impartiality is impossible in the human spirit if you TRULY care. Besides, greater truths in life are often found where you did not expect them, and when competing ideas are debated in a public forum, society can find those truths. It would be a dark day for us all if the current trend either destroyed entirely, or doomed to irrelevance, such potential as that which can be found in the public forums we call the press, but debate and discussion is vital to the human experience, and it will show itself in our society in one form or another.
Finally, I am sending this letter to my friends, family, and people that I have worked with, in the hope that if you read this and find its value and merit, that you in turn send it to all your friends, families, co-workers, and yes your congressmen. It is my hope that you, those closest to me, will take these honest words to heart, and send this letter to everyone you can. There is an option, an alternative, to the direction we are going, and it is not impossible to achieve. I am but one single man in this world, a very small and insignificant thing at best. But, like a single stone cast into a calm pond, my life and my words can create a ripple, to move and effect the bigger world, and that ripple can change the outcome for everyone. Please, if you find merit in this, do not discard it like trash, and do not miss THIS time, and THIS day, to begin the change. Cast your stone with me. Look at the names you hold dear, and send this letter to them. But do not forget to send this to the most important people: your two Senators, and your House Representative. Let them see the writing on the wall, and understand that we, the American citizen, are done with them. FOREVER. Finding them, is convenient. This web address: http://www.congress.org , is "the official" place to find out who has failed to represent you, let not the irony of the website escape you please. Type in your zip code and get their contact information, then forward them this letter, and if it pleases you, your thoughts as well, but do not expect a response from them. It is time that we Americans took back our future, not just in the vote, but in the blood of politics, the money. The dismemberment of the party system internally begins with taking back your money, and your campaign contributions. Hit the professional politicians where it hurts them the most, in the wallet. David slew Goliath with but a single, simple, WELL PLACED stone. If you take your money back, and begin to look for or even to help form NEW parties that would speak for you, Goliath will fall and freedom will return.
My name is Jonathan Karie Ayers, and I will not go gentle into that good night. I invite you, my friends, my fellow citizens, stand beside me and help to turn the crashing tide of darkness, to help restore American greatness, and make this land of opportunity prosperous once again. Hope is not lost. The true Golden Age of America has not yet been written, and it is time for us to put our childhood toys aside and embrace a destiny greater, with more potential and promise, than any we have yet to imagine. Â
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