Dear Mr. President

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Dear Mr. President.

I watched your Labor Day message. Great! And, as you pointed out, nobody said regenerating, not just the middle class, but the whole notion of equality and our almost disappeared Democracy, will be easy. I think that you more than anyone of us realizes what an understatement that is.

But then, when, on the long, long trail over which Humanity has moved from being the property of the few to individual freedom and dignity, when has it ever been easy? We, as a people, do not expect easy. That innate drive into the future of freedom and liberty that has brought us this far has even made us suspicious of easy. If it is easy, we have learned, there is probably some game going on.

We have encountered some rather significant setbacks over the past 30 or 40 years. However, we also have learned that,  as we always have, we will continue to strive and to bring the inalienable right of individual freedom and the opportunities to live a dignified and meaningful life in spite of one's so called  "class" or station into manifestation.

Your vision of Democracy being an Idea which grows from the center or the middle out is profound. This is the way all Ideas manifest.  From their inception in the ethers of the imagination, Ideas or "images of Truth" move into matter and manifestation through the hearts of those who strive to bring them into the world of daily living.

From its very beginning, Democracy, like any Idea conceived in the Light, has encountered the opposition of  the "Status Quo." These new Ideas, which are based in the observable organic wholeness and inclusivity of Life, expand freedom and liberty. And, as they always have, these new ideas bring change and reconstruction.

The forces of opposition seek ever to modify and limit the basic truth of the new. They foster systems of exclusivity and privilege which generate  the sad conditions of inequality which exist in our contemporary societies. These modifications are envisioned in darkness and illusion. They are based in competition and separation.

Rather than generating an inclusive and expanding circle of freedom and liberty they establish boundaries which exclude individuals from Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, or to be specific, education, housing, health care, meaningful work with living wages, dignity. Ironically, the primary objective of these program modifications is abortion. They aim to abort the birthing of the Idea of Freedom and Liberty for All, a labor, which  on the shores of this continent has been ongoing for three hundred plus years.

We know from deep experience that opposition to Humanity's destiny always calls out the best that is in Humanity. We had, for example  in the thirties and forties of the last century the brothers Roosevelt, Truman. Then in the fifties and sixties we had Eisenhower (who actually foretold the coming danger in his remarks regarding the military industrial complex), the Kennedy brothers and King. After that, the opposition began to grow, and we were pushed back or lost ground.

This opposition is at the present moment, as you probably know better than anyone, more fierce than it has ever been. I think that this is so because the stakes are so high. We are so close to removing from this planet all such opposition through the expansion of that circle of inclusive freedom and liberty for All. This is actually phase three of the World War.

Now we have you and a handful of other heart centered leaders. We also have legions of other hearts. We will, of course, triumph, "but only by our own hand, only by our own hearts, only by our own work, only by our own striving."

I also read your commentaries and plans to improve education. I wondered about the discussions behind your use of the phrase, "to make education more affordable". Given the levels of opposition I can understand that these steps are all that can probably be made at this juncture.

However, I think that it might be helpful to the greater struggle if, while making the baby steps, you were more forthright about the facts concerning education. The education of our children, indeed, of our selves, lies at the very core of an expanding, inclusive freedom and liberty. It is the understanding of the true cooperative, inclusive nature of reality that makes us ever more free. Making education totally available for everyone, and not just from "kindergarten to high school" but from birth to death, is not only an essential aspect of Liberty it is an imperative, especially  if we expect to triumph over the ignorance that drives the opposition.

Nothing, of course, is free. There never was "free" education. We, the people have paid for making a good education available for all of our children practically form the beginning of this Nation. We. the people have, in fact, paid for everything that is national in this nation including not only our public educational systems but all aspects of our infrastructure and our armies, navies and air forces. We paid gladly with the sweat of our labor and the love of our freedom.

Perhaps the exclusive few see education as a business. But education is not a business. It is not a commodity that one can, or more likely cannot, "afford." Present oppositional forces block the use of our tax money to pay the cost for decent public schools. These same forces then complain that the schools are not performing and open separative, private, and for profit schools. Other than a few charity scholarships for the some "deserving" poor kids, these private schools mainly serve the few who can "afford." The opposition then establish bank programs to  "loan" our children money at a "fair" interest rate so that they can pay to go to the schools of higher education. Thus they create a whole new group of "indentured servants."

The degeneration of our formerly envy of the world educational systems from public paid for and supported schools to huge separative profit machines is about the best example of just how much "ground we have lost" in this current phase of the ages long struggle. We need to regenerate these systems into wombs of democracy, and as we do, let us not justify or dignify the act of theft that caused this sorry state of affairs by saying that we need to make education "more affordable."

lots of love

-tom