dearest politicians, with sincerity:

If I may have one minute of your time, since time is all you seem to have at the moment, I just have one question for you:

If America’s forefathers stood before you right this very second, what would your reaction be?

Most of you should be hanging your heads in shame, right this very second.  Most of us Americans are already doing so. 

Join us.  For once.  We are already hanging our heads because of you.

I beg that our dead forefathers could awaken and return.  I beg to know how every single one of you current leaders would appear to the very men who begged and bled and awakened and died and BUILT this country and her rights and freedoms…how would you be judged by previous leaders who wept for nationwide equality and tolerance, who sacrificed for better lives for all, if they were to appear before you? 

What would you say to nothing more than their questioning eyes?

Your answer is more important to many, despite budget cuts, taxes, breaks, or any kind of cliffs I can think of…and despite whatever side we choose to stand with.

As I stand and beg, just a commonfolk and young American, I think of all those who have stood in this very place your shoes currently inhabit, and I am embarrassed for you.

I beg to know if any one of you could stand to meet our forefathers’ eyes with your own?  With the current state of this poor country, and what bleak future seems to lie ahead, I dare you to assume you have any worth to meet your eyes with real leaders. 

What would they say?  If they appeared, surveyed, assessed, confirmed, understood every current circumstance surrounding every issue which consumes and defines America, what would the end result make them feel like?

Dare I say they would feel shocked?  I assume each forefather would feel confused, baffled, disgusted, and ANGRY.  I can only imagine the embarrassment, the disgrace, the humility, the bewilderment that our strong, just, weary foreleaders would be overwhelmed with.  The ghostly men would not have to use their mouths, their eyes instead begging for answers –

“How dare you?  How could you?  AND WHY?”

I would offer my voice as a vessel with hope that they would say to you:

“But we worked SO HARD FOR SO LONG on what you have quickly bent, twisted, abused, disrespected, dismantled, and disregarded! 

“Why are any of you REALLY HERE?  What is your intent, because it is obviously not FOR THE PEOPLE?  If you are not one of many, if you are here as one and one only, this place DOES NOT welcome you! 

“You have come not for united justice but for greed and self-preservation.  You have filled the heads of our people with lies as you’ve filled your pockets and the pockets of false leaders with profit.  You walk in with deceitful, squeaky shoes and leave a trail of filth and neglect.  How dare each one of you, with your misguided, selfish greed, have the nerve to walk into OUR HOME, the HOME we built from honest intentions, true visions, spirit-breaking sacrifices, and ABUSE IT ALL for profit stemmed from greed, corruption, and LOST FOCUS!

How dare you?”

I would laugh and cry with pride and fear as each one of you would have to stand before our troubled forefathers and offer the truths of your intentions…assuming your legs could bear your heavy hearts and guilty consciences.  My only fear is that, even standing in front of true leaders and forefathers of the USA, you would STILL cower but lie to the very people who provided you the opportunity to be there in the first place. 

I beg of you now.  Stand in front of the person I am, but see a FOUNDER of whom you ride the coattails. 

WHY ARE YOU HERE? 

WHY SHOULD YOU STAY? 

WHAT ARE YOUR HONEST INTENTIONS?

If they are NOT the same of the men you swore to represent, GET OUT.

 

You are not leaders.  You are not wise judges and objective decision-makers.  You are scoundrels who abuse the titles you wear…titles that you should be wearing respectfully, but instead are MUCKING UP WITH YOUR RUBBISH AND GREED.  Such titles were once respected and admired, but now your powerful titles simply disgust and embarrass many Americans. 

Americans have lost FAITH and RESPECT for you members who aren’t but parasites feeding from the foundation of this country. 

A true, good leader is composed of wisdom, vision, courage, determination, passion, dedication, and strength!

 

Vision strong enough to remain focused on the best outcome amid a cloud of interruption and haze, not just eyes that only see immediate profit for a minority! 

Dedication to a majority who depend on and invest in an honest voice, not dedication to powerful cowards who stuff your pockets with coins! 

Courage to remain focused and dedicated to the foundation of this country and the people who remain here proudly, despite your numerous choices to succumb to the weaker, glitzier, selfish outlets that sprinkle the path to true freedom with temptation!

Determination to remain courageous, dedicated, and envisioned through it all, until the end, where, at the end, you might turn around and view your journey with pride as you recognize that you have genuinely been a TRUE LEADER OF THIS MIGHTY NATION!

Do you have the STRENGTH to fight the flames that are DESTROYING our country and RAGING with greed, corruption, misguidance, confusion, fear, and self-preservation? 

Do you have the WISDOM to make genuine choices that will STRENGTHEN AMERICA, despite inhaling the smoke from these large flames? 

Are you leader enough to know HOW TO BE A LEADER? 

Are you leader enough to dedicate your time and focus your passion on a country whose foundation is unsteady and whose supports are weakening and threatening collapse? 

ARE YOU LEADER ENOUGH?

Return to me, a commongirl, if you’ve looked back to the eyes of our founders.   I beg you.

·     I beg you to look at ME, the fearful, faithless American, and meet my eyes. 

·     I beg of you to be honest – first with my forefathers, then with yourself, and finally, to me. 

·    I beg of you to make a WISE choice that perhaps defies the very reasons you were originally here, and instead is a wholesome investment into my country. 

·     I beg of you to become humble, focused, and dedicated – to me.  To your children.  To those who have lived and died as proud Americans…there are few remaining. 

·   I beg of you to challenge yourself – are you WORTHY of the role you have assumed, and are you SINCERE about your intentions and visions? 

Are you WILLING enough, COURAGEOUS enough, to empty your pockets and offer yourselves as TRUE LEADERS of this country – these states that are filled with angry, confused, disillusioned, desperate, FAITHLESS, DOUBTFUL Americans…states that contain FIGHTING BROTHERS and wandering, discontented members? 

I beg of you.  Look around this once-mighty nation and truly see what exists.  I beg of you.  Turn then to our forefathers as if they stand before you.  I beg of you to answer the questions they would ask of you honestly.  I beg of you to then turn again and view the United States of America.

You are already part of America’s history – will you be recognized as a true leader, or a simple follower?  America is begging each and every one of you to remember her, to embrace her, to help her, to nurture her, to nourish her, to believe in her…She wants to be great again, and she has asked YOU to help. 

America is begging you to answer her – what is your answer?