What would you Wish for if you could manifest the Perfect President?
Let’s consider greatness in our presidential past, to imagine a best-potential political forecast. We understand that we are the creators of reality — shaping this material realm through frequency that emerges first as a spark of thoughts and emotions… engagement and education matters. To look at all sides, to stay connected, and feel deeply with the intuitive body that has always worked to keep us alive. After all, us humans are only mammals… extensions of the mineral kingdom… inseparable from the elements and an expression of evolution. If we silence the mind, we can hear the tides as they rise and fall.
I have seen people I love and respect become undone in the words of politics. I have felt peaceful sages become warriors shooting arrows in the words of politics. The immense stress of conceptualizing what is on the surface, and feeling deeply into what is not. Meanwhile, why is Ai not central in policy conversations? We have engaged a tool as transformative as the introduction of “fire” and the “wheel.”
I remember in 8th grade, I was assigned to my first public speech- to research and present on President Teddy Roosevelt. I was 14 years old, being raised by a librarian who taught at the University of Oregon and handled my school papers like I was one of her college students. Enraptured over deep research of Teddy Roosevelt, I felt his Spirit and the Spirit of the Rough Riders. It felt like my grandfather- wild and somewhat unreasonable, bold and unstoppable, imaginative and revolutionary.
Roosevelt’s story is wild — he started as a privileged New York aristocrat but became an outdoorsman who’d hunt bears, explore wilderness, and who embodied a larger-than-life American hero persona with his mustache, glasses, and fearless attitude. When both his wife and mother died on the same day, he escaped west to the frontier to heal and reinvent himself as a rancher.
One with the Cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt saw firsthand how big companies were destroying America’s wild places, the buffalo herds, the ancient forests. He understood that sacred nature was not an infinite resource. Roosevelt developed this fierce determination to protect these wild spaces.
When he became president, he created The Square Deal. He was the first president to use federal power to control massive companies that were unmonitored and unethical. He broke up 44 monopolies that were controlling entire industries — like Standard Oil owning 90% of all oil refining, and Northern Securities Company having total control of the railroads.
“We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.” — Teddy Roosevelt
The Pure Food and Drug Act he created was revolutionary — before this, companies could sell literally anything and call it medicine or food. There were no rules. People were dying from contaminated meat and fake medicines. This law created what we now know as the FDA.
Roosevelt’s love for wild natural places changed America forever. He protected an incredible 230 million acres of land, created 150 national forests, saved the Grand Canyon, started the Bureau of Forestry, and made the first federal bird reserve. This week I was visiting Crater Lake — which is one of the five National Parks he created — and I realized that he was the first world leader to protect land like this.
His foreign policy approach was “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Meaning, try to work things out peacefully through talking and making deals, but make sure everyone knows you’re strong enough to back it up if needed. His biggest achievement here was building the Panama Canal — connected two oceans, made shipping way faster, and helped Panama break free from Colombia in the process.
While campaigning in 1912, someone shot him in Milwaukee. The bullet went through his glasses case and the 50 page written speech in his pocket and it got stuck in his chest. Instead of going to the hospital, he continued his speech another 84-minutes. That bullet stayed in his chest until he died.
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose!”
The complex thing about Roosevelt is that he was kind of a contradiction — a rich guy who fought for the common people, a conservationist who loved to hunt, a warrior who won the Nobel Peace Prize, a progressive who believed in some really old-school ideas about race and empire. Maybe that’s why we struggle to talk about him simply — he doesn’t fit neatly into any of our modern political boxes.
Roosevelt was an unstoppable force who pushed through massive changes despite powerful people fighting him every step of the way. Everything he created — the FDA, National Parks, Forest Service, laws against monopolies — they’re all still protecting us today. He invented the idea that government should step in to protect people and nature from unchecked corporate power, which was revolutionary for the 1900s and honestly, might be even more important now.
As we collectively utilize the power of presence, peace and prayer during the final countdown in the United States elections, ask yourself… what would you want in a president if you actually felt you had a choice? If you could draw the whole thing from scratch- addressing all the issues that feel honest and relevant to you, what would a future president talk, walk and act like? This is where we start to reimagine the future with shared values, reciprocity, good faith and balance for all life.
