Cooperative Political Odds
I wilt with guilt,
self blame,
too comfortable with living midway
within this United 5%
stealing 28% of Time's encrusted fossil investment
as if by collective right
as if without loss,
no reparations for the other 95%
today
or for the 100% of future generations
born nearly bankrupt
of healthy economic trends
suffering from our eco-dislogical bender.
What I must know
from those who would lead us
through the next two or four or six years,
What is your cooperative political and economic experience,
aspiration,
vision,
informed by the pursuit of wealth measured in inclusive health,
rich nutritious optimization choices
moving you and us away from BusinessAsUsual
Win-Lose strategies
with sub-optimizing intent.
Please let us not settle for Winning now
by choosing Loser policies for tomorrow!
How can you reassure us
that our vulnerable children
will not be heated
for stealing from all Earth's tribal presence
and future,
further shredding karmic grace
of healthy eco-normic pace?
If we are global citizens,
how can we tolerate
allowing our kids to deliberately aim ballistics against each other,
to take nature's irreplaceable energy
so outrageously, violently,
to strip our water and air of their mutual climatic balance,
our soil raped of health,
our own future potential aborted
bereft of health and justice birthright
which mindless violence
and short-sighted Win-Lose competition have squandered.
Show me the candidates
who study their own priorities
as incarnated by their colleagues,
discern how they can combine strengths
to cooperatively develop optimized health wealth
as both domestic and global necessity.
If candidates cannot establish Win-Win campaign priorities,
why would we believe they know how to develop Win-Win policies?
If candidates cannot explain how they are fully invested
in their local cooperative economies
and inclusive governance discernment
then how could they explain their default
to competitive BusinessAsUsual
Win-Lose politics and economics
in which I have lost all faith
in outcomes other than collapse and failure?
We must more fully incarnate
Earth's synergetic evolution of health
as ecopolitical measure of sustainable wealth.
Missing this primal priority
is suicidal cannibalism,
eating our own children's integrity,
viability for loving life
more than entropic stasis.
Where are our Boddhisatva Cooperative Warriors,
willing to embrace this challenge of active love
in private as public life?
We have run out of time for second string illusionists,
not fully investing of and for first string permaculturists.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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