Dear Hillary

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Dear Hilary:

I can’t imagine  that  you are not aware of the overwhelming evidence that the death penalty is not in any way a deterrent to murder or any other crime. Your being in favor of the death penalty puts you out of sync with 61% or more of your fellow citizens, (a majority of that 61% is more than likely women) who would choose a punishment other than the death penalty for murder. 2010 poll by Lake Research Partners

However, my concern here is not with the data concerning the death penalty. It is about the feminine principle, the heart, compassion, and love. I do not want to belabor the obvious ancient, (eye for an eye) barbaric cruelty of the death penalty, but surely you can see that a State Execution is simply the  murder of a helpless individual. Such executions are more a matter of revenge, of “payback” than anything that approaches Justice.  Execution or calling it what it is, murder, is certainly not choice the heart would make, or a practice that the Feminine Principle would consider.

This position highlights your major problem with a very large sector of the voting population, including me. You consistently prove to us that you are a match for any man. As I pointed out earlier, we do not need a strong male president. We need a woman with a heart.

Your deep connections with the traditional male engendered and dominate power structures of the nation which utterly lack any kind of heart energy or understanding of the feminine Principle are truly a problem for you. This is clear to anyone who is thinking with the heart, and more and more of the people are doing so.

I think you can win a national election. And you do possess all of the skills the nation needs to navigate our way through the present maelstrom of retrogression. It will be sad indeed if those skills are not directed by an open heart.

I must say that I will not be voting for you in the California primary unless I see a demonstration of such a heart, and  you can begin by being in favor of Life rather than murder.

Lots of love and hope

-tom

Dear Hillary

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Dear Hillary,

Last evening, I was very encouraged by the presence and adult discussion of the Democratic candidates for President. Your presence and cool poise, and that pragmatic commonsense streak which is your default position was very much in evidence.  I was, however, particularly interested in your reaction to Bernie’s heart generated comments regarding your “damn emails.”

Your reaction was a spontaneous heart driven response. That’s how the heart functions. It knows. It knows without any data or intellectual inputs.

You actually revealed your heart. It has been rather hidden. I suspect that that was a price you had to pay to operate in the kinds of environments where Tough, Hardnosed and what were frequently mistaken for “pragmatic decisions” dominated and where the heart, if it dared to show itself,  was seen in the archaic male generated dogma that was used eons ago to get Woman out of the way as weak and soft and not able to make tough decisions. Your heart did not choose to vote for the war.

If, as you claim, you really want to do a service for Woman, bring your heart on-line. It was Bernie’s heart driven reaction to injustice, bullying, and yes abuse of a woman (Can you imagine these ignoramuses, going after a man’s emails like that?) that spoke for you in those moments.

Well Hillary, as you know from much, much experience, the heart understands things on levels that the mind cannot even imagine. The skills that you have gained from your training will only reach their real potential when you bring your heart back on-line because the heart can see the path which lies between.

Men also beat the heart in men into some kind of quiescence. We, many of us, have experienced ignoring our natural heart understandings of situations and listened to our minds only to see the our hardnosed pragmatic” decisions disintegrate and lead to the same problems, sometimes in the very same forms.

 I suspect that you will win the nomination and election Hillary, but the Nation, the Planet needs a new Way. Cool poise, and sharp intellects, cannot really see the pragmatic way. These skills are invariably effected by personal agendas on various levels, and pragmatic means what will work for this or that most powerful special interest.

For the heart, pragmatic means what will best serve the Common Good and the General Welfare. It takes a kind of feminine sensitivity to not only understand this but to have the courage to put it into action. You can do this.

Lots of love

-tom