I used to go camping with my family and friends. We would sit around the campfire and tell stories. \u00a0I loved it because I knew it was made-up and that it was story they were telling. We ate Smores and laughed but there was a moment in the story when we forgot to laugh. \u00a0When we forgot that it was story they were telling us. \u00a0Then the story went off track and we all remembered, \u201cThat is ridiculous, that couldn\u2019t happen\u201d. \u00a0As a kids we loved to be chased and scared, because we know it is all made up.<\/p>\n
Well somewhere along the line of growing up from my child hood to adult hood something happened and we forgot as a society to remember that we are being told a story, a narrative to follow. \u00a0We turn on our TV\u2019s after the debate, or speeches, or \u00a0the convention and see men and woman dressed up in dresses and suits who look nice and appear to be knowing something that we don\u2019t. \u00a0Each of them just watched the same thing we did and yet what they saw was filled with drama, chaos, and a world on the verge of falling apart. \u00a0And yet as a society we don\u2019t question the story they are telling us. \u00a0In order to make the next month exciting in the campaign they have to make the story BIG, LOUD, and a CLIFF HANGER. Why else would we care?<\/p>\n
Here is a good example of the story. \u00a0I don\u2019t care what way you vote that is your belief, what I care about is why we let the story drive us, cause chaos in our life, instead of looking at the facts. \u00a0Here is my example, Romney tells us a wonderful story of how much he cares for our country, yet he is caught secretly telling others that he really doesn\u2019t. Okay that actually happened, fact. When asked about it he in turn justifies why he did it and stands by it. No apology. \u00a0Cut to yesterday, the story changes that he won a victory in the debate, so now he apologies to the American people about his comments, now that he feels he won a debate. \u00a0That is the symbol of gross. \u00a0As politicians they are servants to this country and serve everyone, not their party,not lobbyists, not anything but this country and the highest best place for it. \u00a0Your public life and private life should be one, not two.<\/p>\n
So now we are all sitting around TV\u2019s, like I did around a campfire as a kid and forgetting that we are being fed stories. \u00a0We need to start to change our stories, and those stories are changed by our own consciousness. \u00a0Till consciousness changes we will be unable to change our society, which by the way is for the 100%, which is on our money for goodness sake, \u201cE Pluribus unum\u201d which means out of many, one. \u00a0We are one nation under God, or we hold these truths to be self evident that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, not some men.<\/p>\n
My hope is that both CNN and FOX News stop telling and creating stories and start reporting. . \u00a0Also, memo to the politicians, we see you and see who you really are. \u00a0Just because you are running for office of any kind doesn\u2019t give you the right to lie about another, to twist facts, this country was founded on the rights of everyman, and yes each person here matters. \u00a0Just be honest, and let us figure it out. \u00a0We teach our children to speak the truth, people go to spiritual practices to speak the truth, and yet it is somehow awesome to lie about another. Bravo (Sarcasm). \u00a0Stop being children and be MEN. Be authentic, open, sincere, honest, everyone in this country knows that state we are in. \u00a0We are not dumb. But change takes patience, not force.<\/p>\n
Please stop telling stories about the other and start letting us know what you will actual do. I don\u2019t care about blue\/red states, I don\u2019t care if you go to Sunday Church or not; because if you were devote and believed in something higher, than you would take the high road and stop taken the easy road, I care about innovation, I care about freedom, I care about the whole of humanity, I care about why the wealthiest companies don\u2019t give 5% of their income to end homelessness, I care about families, kids, Dad\u2019s, Mom\u2019s who are moving toward a better society, I care about independence, and would like to end our co-dependence on oil so when I wake up in the morning I am not surprised by a .20 cent hike in gas for no apparent reason. Forget the stories of us and them, democrat and republican, good or bad, please end the story of lobbyists, and work together. HOW CAN YOU GUYS WORK TOGETHER? All of us work in jobs where we have to work with people who we disagree with, so suck it up and work together not for you, but for US- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.<\/p>\n
Being president of the United States is not a prize to put on your mantle like a trophy. This is real. This is about real people. \u00a0I care about why our teachers don\u2019t have salaries like athletes, why people abuse other people, why we still have War, why other countries matter more than our country, this election should be how we come together. We watched the last 2 years of the Republicans and Democrats not willing to work with the president. Can somebody please fire people in leadership roles who don\u2019t want to work with other?<\/p>\n
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