To The Youths of East Haven

To the youth of East Haven who will one day inherit “STAVEN.”

Surely by this time in your lives, you pretty much know the profound distinction between right and wrong, good or bad and the values those essentials contribute to each of our way of life.

About who we are as individuals and collectively as a people, living together in this small enclave we call East Haven.

For more than at any time with the exception of the holiday season perhaps, we adults become so unconsciously discombobulated we forget You, Our children; the very reason for our existence, as we become so stubbornly myopic in our views of those fundamentals, we completely forget the very purpose we are engaged in this political process to begin with, which existentially is about your future; most definitely not ours.

I am of course referring to the politics of our government. In short; Election, the period when moral relativism becomes more acceptable, it seems.

When the definition of right as we’ve learned from our parents and taught in our schools, maybe not, but only if it contradicts our political party’s interest and not necessarily ours.

I may be speaking to the wind but I find it incredulous to read the rebuke of some (candidates) against common sense and sound judgments while simultaneously marketing themselves as being the epitome of it, which only makes me wonder if, they can fully visualize the conflicting message their declaration create.

But more to the point perhaps: when were they for common sense and when were they not for it?

More particularly, is it really about respect for our human values? About preserving the integrity of our institutions? Our way of life?

Or is it really more about power and the privileges it endows its holder, which brings me to the question I have often raised in this campaign.

Does qualification particularly in public service, matter? Should personal reputation matter?

Our democratic form of government (make that plutocracy) unarguably by its nature, preempts any qualification requirements for that would be anathema to its very nature.

But does that mean we should faithfully abide by that definition despite the dangers integral in its observance?

The name East Haven conjures images that challenges the mind for it often remind one of the perfect definition of insanity ; "of doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result each time."

All of which runs counter to the admonition that we should leave the world a better place than we found it.

But you tell us, youths of East Haven; is that what we’re doing?

In the field of public opinion, reputation is everything but again please tell us; do we appear to care?

So what must you do?

The answer I leave to you; the future of East Haven.

Bonifacio (Oni) Sioson