So before assisting our parents with throwing out our children with Baby Boomer dirty water, let's ask our neighbors, leaders and mirrors, what have we told ourselves lately? As for whistleblowers, thank you for trying to put the wind back beneath our wings.
Have we told you lately that we need you?
America cannot sustain its exceptional pretense much longer, without imploding, and Band-Aids, like Sea World's fishy camouflage drowning out the truth of disappearing audiences for imprisoned Orcas, won't cut bait anymore. So hello young voters whoever, and wherever you are, you are now a part of our national, Truth or Consequences.
With all due respect, here's a big picture election teaching moment: it wasn't the peaceful demonstrations of Concerned Student 1950 or Jonathan Butler's Mizzou hunger strike, but talking money that would be lost without football -- so, enhance your Bucket List: re-create paper trail ballots, in the digital age, and vote.
With reason aforethought, 2016 can be the resurrection of the essence of our highest ideals, intellect and unity -- or our Last Hurrah!
However, there will be no $15 an hour minimum wage, ratified ERA or Roman Holiday, unless those under 50 vote for government transparency, an enlightened South and an end to Red vs. Blue.
The Good Fight to recapture the American Dream is happening right now in 2015, and with more villains than heroes on the battlefield, our adult children need to vote to save our grandparents.
Have we told you lately there is no cure for Alzheimer's without research dollars; no help for apathy, but action; no chance for change in complacency.
While some have forgotten that America is more than memorials and statues of the long ago, we have climbed too high above the foundation of our Founding Fathers, to let the dream be trumped by unworthy jesters who think us foolish enough to be their foot stools.
Let us learn from the courage of whistleblowers and revitalize elder memories, youthful dreams and young at heart pragmatism with the importance of compromise and necessity for the whole truth and nothing but the good, the bad and the ugly truth.
Bridge the chasm between what is and what we've been told to believe, and before it's too late, tell yourself you love you, and then tell three others who don't look, think or vote like you.
We may never again know the pure patriotism of Valley Forge snow, but on the journey to recapture our ensemble, we could become the America we thought we were.
Truth is, a sitting Vice President targeted whistleblowers for a G. W. Bush Nixon-like hit list, and the death wish stench of Dick's breath snuffed out truth. Lives, careers, reputations, economies, like our children, were Left Behind, as was an envelope on the Oval Office desk.
We'll never know what message Bush left for Barack Obama, but arguably, whatever secrets they were, began the transformation of the prince of hope, change and Yes We Can, into a political pragmatist and real-time chess playing drone warrior-in-chief, with a Department of Justice that reigned down both pin prick justice on Wall Street Financial Institutions and injustice on the whistleblowers who exposed their government.
Have we yet told a United States Army soldier Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, or CIA Officer John Kiriakou, or NSA Senior Thomas Drake or DOJ attorney Jesselyn Radack, or even Snowden, that we love them for their sacrifice to save us and our country from Corporatism and our government?
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