To: Bernie Sanders, Senator, Cory Booker, Senator, Amy Klobuchar, Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator, Kamala Harris, Senator, John Hickenlooper, Governor, Elizabeth Warren, Senator, Beta O'Rourke, Joe Biden, Andrew Yang, Julián Castro, Tul...
Stop wasting time and money Democrats: Run for the white house as a team, not as individuals.
As current leaders in our society, you’ve all got important character traits and knowledge that make you fine candidates to be the next president of our country; but the sustainable change we need can not possibly be addressed and solved by one individual. If your ultimate goal is progress, and not just power and fame, then I urge you to stop competing against like-minded candidates for an individual presidency, and instead collaborate as the team we need to run our executive branch and fix our country; choose someone to run for title of President, build the cabinet necessary to support them, and then organize community conversations on a political agenda that it is attractive and beneficial to ALL Americans.
Why is this important?
I’m from a rural town in Northeast Pennsylvania, and am pursuing a career in sustainable agriculture and community development. I have intentions of spending most of my adult life, working at least 40 hours per week, to help provide the food that we all need to survive, and the plans and mobilization for community development, that we all need to thrive. Yet, I realize, if things stay the way they are, I will likely struggle to pay my bills and then have to deal with the high stress and anxiety that so many in our country face every day. I, and many other like minded individuals, want to help society, and yet not all of us are awarded financial stability for doing the best that we can do. Something is wrong with that, and that is why I care to write this petition.
I urge all of the Democratic candidates to reflect on the importance the presidency holds, while not ignoring the fact that it takes far more than one individual to run a nation and bring about systemic change for the good of all. Enormous amounts of time and money in this country are wasted in argument and competition, whereas conversation and collaboration can actually get things done in an efficient manner. I ask that you stop your campaigns momentarily, sit down and talk to one another, and come up with a team to try and take over the executive branch through the 2020 election.
After putting together a team and rough agenda headed for the white house, your now pooled campaign time and money could be invested in community discussions on how the big change y'all are proposing is not going to screw over the working class. Through these conversations, your agenda and policies can be refined to reflect the needs of the working class, while gathering enough grassroots support to ensure their passage into law if you do win the election.
Political decisions are determining whether my neighbor and I have access to healthy food, clean water, a roof over our head, and the ability to educate and better ourselves. Political decisions should be leveling the playing field and making sure each and every person, regardless of sex, race, origin, or belief, has an equal opportunity to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For those of you who do truly wish to help the American people, I urge you to work with, and not against, your fellow Americans, to renew our democracy and put our valuable time and money into solutions and not into competition.
Thank you for your time :)
Some light readings for reasoning…
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-meaningful-life/201802/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-meaning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy/?utm_term=.baf59143b58d
I urge all of the Democratic candidates to reflect on the importance the presidency holds, while not ignoring the fact that it takes far more than one individual to run a nation and bring about systemic change for the good of all. Enormous amounts of time and money in this country are wasted in argument and competition, whereas conversation and collaboration can actually get things done in an efficient manner. I ask that you stop your campaigns momentarily, sit down and talk to one another, and come up with a team to try and take over the executive branch through the 2020 election.
After putting together a team and rough agenda headed for the white house, your now pooled campaign time and money could be invested in community discussions on how the big change y'all are proposing is not going to screw over the working class. Through these conversations, your agenda and policies can be refined to reflect the needs of the working class, while gathering enough grassroots support to ensure their passage into law if you do win the election.
Political decisions are determining whether my neighbor and I have access to healthy food, clean water, a roof over our head, and the ability to educate and better ourselves. Political decisions should be leveling the playing field and making sure each and every person, regardless of sex, race, origin, or belief, has an equal opportunity to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For those of you who do truly wish to help the American people, I urge you to work with, and not against, your fellow Americans, to renew our democracy and put our valuable time and money into solutions and not into competition.
Thank you for your time :)
Some light readings for reasoning…
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-meaningful-life/201802/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-meaning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy/?utm_term=.baf59143b58d