Letter to the Candidates 2012

We want America back!

We want America to follow the American Dream.

No more poor fighting rich men’s wars.

If someone really must go, send the big CEO’s.

Then leave them there.  They’ll find someone to bring them coffee.

We don’t care about the Iranian bomb.

Too many have died in the crusade

against weapons of mass destruction.

We are not worried about a terrorist

following us home like a rabid dog.

We are not afraid of your boogie man bombers.

We fear only our mistakes,

we’re afraid the bombs we have dropped on babies

will hail back down on us like smoking guns.

We need to change it all around.

We need to fight the good war,

the war against ignorance and cruelty,

the war against torture and racism,

one that won’t bankrupt us financially or morally.

We want America back!

We want gays to run the military

and a lesbian marriage on the White House lawn.

We want to build homes for the homeless

help the hungry, take care of the sick,

and educate the curious,

we want government to start earning its keep.

Don’t tell me 47% of America is unwilling to take “personal responsibility”

for their lives.  When is Romney going take responsibility for his lies?

We don’t want to hear someone talking about “legitimate” rape.

We know who is really getting screwed.

We want America back!  (We want it all back.)

We not only want decent jobs

but our jobs to realize

we work to live not live to work.

We need time to play with our kids.

We need schools that are not

brain numbing factories

where our kids can learn

what they care about

and still have time to be kids.

We want to make it hard to get married

and easy to get divorced.

We want to make blind patriotism illegal

and to legalize marijuana.

We want good music in the groceries stores

and art on the walls of Walmart.

We want a national holiday for Allen Ginsberg’s birthday.

We want to see Obama face off Romney

in a nationally televised slam.

We want to silence all politicians

unless they can speak with rhyme and reason.

We want to hear about your solutions not their problems.

We want to pay our teachers like baseball players.

We want to give awards to parents

who listen to their teenagers

and love them no matter what.

We want free college,

free daycare and free healthcare.

We want doctors to treat humans

not just disease.

We want to retire early and securely.

We want Jimi Hendrix music

in our Senior Centers.

We want America back!

We want to live in community.

We want to understand and respect

our neighbors across the street

and all across the globe.

We believe in human rights

for all people and all nations

even if they don’t have oil.

We want to tear down the walls on our border

and welcome the hard working immigrants

that have always made America great.

We want to learn new languages,

to embrace new cultures,

to be a partner not a bully.

We want to be part of the human

mandala that will heal the earth.

We want America back!

We want Exxon executives to have to walk to work,

Clear Channel to never play the same song twice,

Procter & Gamble to care more about cancer than profit,

General Mills to start making their food sacred.

Take the money we pay farmers not to plant

and use it to learn sustainable farming

with respect for our planet.

We want to let the trees grow

and give land back to the animals.

We want our Native Americans

to manage our national forests.

We want one rider SUVs banned

from all public highways.

We don’t want to drill

the last of our wilderness,

not now, not ever.

We want the oil companies to give back

the money they are stealing from us.

We want electric cars not tax breaks for the rich.

We want the power of the wind

and the sun and the oceans,

we want to plan now to stop

global warming before it is too late.

We want America back!

We want rivers we can drink out of

and cities we can walk in.

We want a real democracy,

where voters pick the candidates.

We want to elect our president

by national popular vote.

Ban all campaign ads.

Use the money to register more voters,

to run more candidates.

We want to reserve the rights of free speech

for real people, not big corporations.

Make the corporate donors admit what that

are trying to buy for all that money.

We need a president who cares

for all Americans, who speaks for the people

not the corporations, and a congress that will

work together and do what is best for the country

no matter whether or not

they think it will benefit their party.

In fact, ban all political parties!

We need a no party system,

with no corporate personage,

with politicians jailed for lying,

and the media paid by how thoughtful,

balanced and complete they report

what is really happening.

We need Americans to understand we are taking America back!