Letter to a Candidate

... Do it wisely. Make a difference.

Dear Candidate,

You stand before me now in fear. anxiety and confusion. Much the way I stood before you not so very long ago.

Do you remember the look you tried so desperately to convey? Do you remember how you tried so hard to convince me that you cared? That it wasn't you who made this choice but the "others" that you could not question. How naive you must have thought me.

Now you and others like you stand before me and others like me to plead to keep your lifestyle. You continue to believe you have nothing to do with the starving people in the streets. Nothing to do with the families torn apart by unemployment and homelessness. Nothing to do with the early deaths of children and the elderly.

We elected you to do a job -- Speak for us. You chose instead to murder us. You chose to ban with those who share your greed. Now you and your friends are paranoid. But it isn't paranoia when someone is really out to get you. We are out to get you. We will get you -- in the voting booths across America. We will bring you down and we will learn. Learn not to leave a man in office longer than eight years. Because we know, after man is elected he starts to owe the "others".

From this point on we will give you eight years -- four to try and four to make the change. After that, you're on your own. Get a job. Plan your retirement. Find a reasonable healthcare plan. In other words, live the way we live. If you've worked hard, paid taxes, and invested in your future you should be fine -- as long as the bankers, CEOs, investment wizards and politicians don't take it all.

Yours truly,

The American Voter