Dear Senator Sanders;
I wrote this letter in May 2016 to clear my mind on why you were so important to me and how painful it was to know how right you are about the state of our country. When you left the race this year, in 2019 in the midst of the nation’s first major health crisis, I remembered what I wrote and knew if you read it today you would understand why writing it then is important now.
The complaints of the progressives and the democratic socialists regarding the arrogant superficiality of wealth do not alter the ability of the super-rich to make compellingly detrimental choices. Historically, those seeking wealth obtain this power in blood lost by the young, who know little of its preciousness. You watch the wounded delirium of our disadvantaged youth to reveal growing isolation of high importance. I concede to you all of these observations, yet a call for a mass protest vote is the hallucination of demagogues. The challenge is to dig far more deeply into the core of survival data. The blood on a new trail of tears remains. It is up to us to draw the strength we need from it to bring the change we seek.
Work for those in pain and hidden anguish. Here you will find the heart of creative rediscovery and the change you seek will be fully implemented. Today, the American question is all about trading in the “knowing vs. the unknowing” market place and much less of a “have vs. have not” issue.
The courage it takes to hold the evidence of our senses is not to go off-grid, it is an attempt to eradicate the regressions of taxation. I know how difficult this is, but I beg you to think long, once again. The Presidency is lost, so you must endure at the anonymous core of the First Amendment with the generation you have won. Leave the tasks that need to be done now and share the hard work of your generation by skipping well forward to a new generation. It will be about the strategic plan and meticulous preparation of a hundred thousand emerging professionals. Remain unchanged, focus on the work of delivering the thousands of steps on the ladder I know you have built for others to climb. They can hear you and because of that, they will listen to be heard. With any luck, you will hear your voice once again.
Thank you