“for the student who seeks to learn; the voter who demands to be heard; the innocent who longs to be free; and the oppressed who yearns to be equal.”
I badly want to hear candidates in the general election describe “we the voters”. I so badly want to hear.
I want to feel the “throbbing resonance” of shared beliefs, shared purpose and shared hopes. I want to feel the protection of an arm around me as we whisper our fears.
As a relative newcomer to UK, I want to hear the shared mythology that long time residents share and reassure them we are in this together. I want to see their shoulders relax and their eyes light up.
We are a different place from the US and we are on a different journey. And maybe in my noobe status, I am not hearing what is being said.
Maybe though we are going to have big surprises when the results are announced. Maybe too social movements like Hang_em will take off.
What do you think about the connection between the politicians and the voters? I’d love to know.
QUOTATION FROM: Barack Obama addressing the United Nations Wednesday 23 September 2009
No spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion.
George Eliot
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Those who do not understand their destiny, will never understand the friends they have made, nor the work they have chosen, nor the one life that waits beyond all others.
David Whyte in All the true vows in River Flow, p. 349.
