No
Virginia, There is no Santa Claus… but better still, there is a Senator
Elizabeth Warren.
With
gratitude to Virginia O’Hanlon, and The Sun… J.M. Hamilton (12-20-14)
Dear Editor, I am 8 years old.
Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.”
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115 W. 95th St.
Virginia O’Hanlon, a real girl, wrote a
real letter.
Virginia, your
little friends, the plutocracy, are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism
of a skeptical age. The political elite do not believe except what can be
denominated in campaign contributions. The economic and political elite think
that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All
minds, Virginia, whether they be corrupt politicians or monopolist, are little.
In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect,
as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence
capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
No, Virginia,
there is no Santa Claus, but better still, there is a Senator Elizabeth
Warren. The Senator exists as certainly
as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and
give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world
if there were no Senator Warren! It would be as dreary as if there were no
Virginias. There would be no faith in the political process, no populism, no
democratic means to make tolerable this unjust existence. We should have no
enjoyment, except in the material. The eternal light with which childhood fills
the world would be extinguished.
Not believe
that Senator Warren will run for President! You might as well not believe in
PACs, 501(c), grass roots movements, or the power of social media! You might
get your papa to hire men to watch Massachusetts on Christmas Eve to find
Senator Warren, but even if they did not see Senator Warren railing against
Wall Street, what would that prove? Nobody sees HOPE that there will be a President Warren, but that is no sign
that there will not be a President Warren. The most real things in the world
are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see robber barons
dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not
there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and
unseeable in the world.
You tear apart
the Wall Street cartel and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil
covering the unseen world which not the strongest military, nor even the united
strength of the military industrial and intelligence complex could tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view
future President Warren’s super natural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all
real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No President
Warren! Thank God she lives and her fight lives forever. A thousand years from
now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10 thousand years from now, Senator Warren’s words
will continue to make glad the heart of humankind.
Copyright
JM Hamilton Publishing 2014
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