And here is what I would say:
Countrymen! City-folk! Be here with me now, and hear my voice!
Our individual lives -- in many cases full of suffering -- exist within a GREAT HISTORY of people, just like you. Lives replete with complications beyond words to tell. Their lives were spent bringing us to this moment. We can look to our parents and elders for these stories and the legends.
What we face today is what we will speak of to our children and their children.
Without detailing any requisites of denomination or faith, I can predict: In of your awareness of Noble Truth, determined honestly and thoroughly, you will be elevated. With such clarity, you will see the society we have engineered, so abundant in resources, opportunities, and experience! And you will see the cost, even in your daily grind, it takes to bring these things to market.
Once appreciative, once humble, you will know in what very natural way you may aide the tasks of which you are a part. You will know the power of your dollar. And in a very very small way, you will have a enormous impact on the temperature and direction of our economy.
Most of you are frustrated with the current state-of-affairs. You may even be scoffing, or ridiculing my predictions, saying, "Yes, yes, yes, of course, but HOW? What about taxes? What about education, crime, rates...what about the WAR?? Are you pro-choice or not????????"
But these questions are a savvy trap designed to cycle our minds, like a caged creature. I speak to every American who can recognize, in our glorious economic success (look around our country! See the wealth!) THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES to educate oneself, to grow, to find love, to mature, to age, and to lead a steady and comfortable recline from life.
Of course as President, my overbiding ambition will be to fund and extend these opportunities, especially to those who have been socially deprived them. There is no place for class-ism or racism in our land anymore! These things have indeed happened. It happened, there is no excuse, no penance could possibly be paid -- today what can be done is to honor the sacrifice by stopping the cycles of revenge and anger. Today, your leaders can be honest and ask for forgiveness for what our fore-fathers have done. Today, we all can open this gift from within.
Additionally, as your leader, I must also take part in this pursuit of what is good, and what is right. Though I could not say so to you if I were incumbent to the political party system, I would say that our economic system is largely a printed-paper fiction, of which some prevailing families, institutions, and individuals have a throttlehold. As our current crisis suggests, these heavy hitters may have indeed squeezed too tightly. . .I say there is no blood to be had from a turnip. . .take no more money from the people. I do not expect to see the billion- and million-aires be made paupers, but I do envision a system where their philandering generosity and charity is rewarded in some proportional way to the taxes expected of them. In this way, our capitalist heroes will educate and fertilize the next generation of players.
Health care must be provided for everybody. . .this is just one of those things that, no matter our hierarchical success in the current system, we will each come to know as true. As doctors and healers become united in philosophy, despite their different methods, a less expensive, better-performing order of health-care will be instantiated.
And what about law and order? What about those who fight to retain the old militaristic approach to problem solving?
I say, again, as each individual succeeds in the joyous task of aligning themselves to satisfaction, slowly the pressure on our justice system will ease. This will happen partially because there are fewer cases, but more so because the destructive and barbaric approach to life's problems will be more identifiable. A liar will be a pinochio, the hooligan will show guilt, and the vampire will see light. As the courts begin to have room to breathe fresh air, the executive branch as well will have time to question themselves and their role in society. Peacekeeping may come to have a noble reputation.
These things are what need to happen. A government cannot mandate these things -- and so none of your former presidents have been able to affect this change. Unable to do what is necessary, without compromising the integrity of our 3-branch system, they have resorted to the typical avenues of politicking and maintainence.
I too will not be able to mandate the things I have spoken about (nor would I want to), but I will speak to you of their absolute reality, despite all nay-sayers, despite all character assassinations, despite my own mortality. I will live in truth of what I know, and I sollemnly vow to frame my decisions of legislature always in hopeful pursuit of a society I am proud to have helped forge.
We have 4 years together -- things may change as drastically as the elevated ones are able to manage the heathens, as quickly as the heathens hear the call. If we remain polarized, in fear and combat, very little will change. However! The cosmos is a study of cycles, and we are indeed ready for a change, so in this respect, I anticipate some assistance!
Many of you will laugh at me for charting my presidency via the stars, but I challenge you back. . .have your methods worked any better? Simply by admitting the great accomplishment we have made with America, and by asking our global partners for forgiveness, we could begin to repair our relationships with them. Our military has proven itself, let us truly employ it as a martial art, used only in defense and to disarm our aggressor. If our markets fail, let us go without that item, for we can feed, clothe, house, and educate our own nation,
what more do we need?If our bloated, money-hungry economy must fail, so be it. Fortunes won are inevitably fortunes lost. Poor people have always known this. What is more important is that every individual has a task that is crucial and that they are paid adequately to afford the common experience. Those that wish to have more may do so by their ambition to excell in any given field or trade.
As I have said, within all of our grasps are the tools to forge a better society. Our ancestors have lived and died to make it so. It is now our responsibility to empower it, enjoy it, and let it endure until the earth itself changes her mode.
LOVE!
