Good
evening Ladies and gentleman my
name is YJ Draiman and I want to be your Mayor.
Individually, we are one
drop. Together, we are an ocean!
If you
want to improve your lives and the city of Los Angeles Los Angeles Los Angeles Los
Angeles Los Angeles LA
Promote
new businesses, fix the infrastructure, and obey the law no matter what. Fix
and improve our education system and our transportation system.
Devise a
system that will maintain our infrastructure on an ongoing basis without coming
to the people to fix and do a catch-up for 90 years of neglect. Whether you
elect me or any of the other candidates who are standing before you and are not
currently running our city, but please for your sake and the sake of our city
elect one of us.
We the
candidates as a cohesive force will work together to improve your lives and the
city with a relentless effort to achieve this goal. I urge you to give us this
chance, you will not regret it. Try it you will like it.
YJ
Draiman – For Mayor of Los Angeles 2017
P.S.
"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like
fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like
brothers"
“The most
beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known
suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life
that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people
do not just happen.”
I dream of a world where the truth is
what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think
is true.
UNITY
ReplyDeleteIndividually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean!
This is not a political rant. This is not an argument for or against your politics. I have my political positions and I vote my conscience. I don't apologize for that and I don't ask you to apologize for yours if they differ from mine. But it stops there. We must agree on one thing if there is anything left of our nation that can be united. We must agree that every human being has the right to liberty, equal justice under the law, and the pursuit of their own happiness as long as it doesn't infringe on others.
When we limit those American promises to those who fit a certain mold, we've lost our way.
I'll concede that I can't predict the future. I'll also admit that neither side has all the solutions to the complex problems we face as a divided nation -- a nation of 345 million in a world of 7.3 billion. So, we can argue about which government program will be better, which international agreement we should honor or what is the fairest tax system. But we cannot argue about basic human rights -- the inherent worth and dignity of every human being. When we marginalize any segment of our society, we compromise everyone. Each one of us has some attribute that could eventually be considered "not American enough." When any government consolidates power, and decides which of those attributes is not acceptable, it is a short step to fascism. When that government operates with the financial backing of corporate power and money, that short step has been taken and we've arrived.