Leadership

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I have much been contemplating the concept of Leadership lately. It appears to me that such is what Americans are most clamoring for. The Tea Party movement is bringing to the table the belief that they can find a qualified candidate if they do a thorough vetting; but do we even know what we are looking for? Are we asking the right questions? What do we expect these people to accomplish when they are being dealt a flawed hand and we want miracles. 

We, the People, have lost our way. The government has lost its way because the people have lost their way. Like everyone else, being fearful of looking bad, it is easier for politicians to go with the political flow than to paddle against it. Fearful of speaking the truth, the pulpits have lost their way, and so has Academia. Fear is America's King.
The blind are leading the blind because we don't know what fearless, courageous leadership looks like anymore. We look to political parties to provide us with a candidate we believe will save us, and when they fail, we look for another, and then another. The problem is that we look to politicians and institutions to save us; but worse than that, we look to the government to bail us out. If we stick to this pattern, we will be demanding a King. Hitler rose to power on this magic carpet, as did other world dictators.

The government is not our savior. If a single politician is unable to withstand, let alone overcome, the momentum and pressure of the machine, are we so deceived as to believe that the collective bureaucratic group consciousness can be altered from its present destructive course? It is ludicrous to dismiss the fact that peer pressure is at work at the highest levels of government and finance. To break away from the status quo is political suicide. This is why the momentum of main stream thinking is leading America into the totalitarianism abyss.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. How many more elections will it take for the American People to realize that our problems will not be solved at the ballot box. It is time to think outside the box. Given the circumstances of our plight, the further the better.

We were born for this time, that is why we are here. We must accept the circumstances for what they are, and respond in a manner that is constructive, rather than destructive. There are some choices we must make; but there are some things on which we must first agree. If we cannot agree on certain, specific, fundamentals, we will have neither the dialog nor the relationship we must have to be successful in dealing with our circumstance.