Where Is The Leadership?
As our population exceeds 300 million people in America, I consider the choices we now have for elected office, and the choices we will have in the next few years. I wonder why there is an inadequate number of leaders to step forward and lead this country.
Are we setting a trend for electing officials we love to hate or those who endure scandal? With 300 million we should be looking at a very large pool of highly qualified leaders.
I believe the major reason we don't have leaders stepping forward; they do not want to be scrutinized and humiliated by newspaper and television media. These sources appear to control politics in America and through bombardment of their political agenda, over step and influence voters to support their candidates. Daily, in both media, there is a demeaning attitude aimed at opponents who do not agree with their philosophy of how America should be run. These sources stop at nothing to find anything in an opponent's background to cause scandal and sway voters.
Each election year, outstanding candidates put their hat in the arena for office. The fallout is enormous. They are attacked and have skeletons from years ago dug up by a sensationalistic media. These skeletons are usually private and do not affect their ability to lead, the motivation for this behavior if foremost, destroy their credibility and eliminate them as competition. It has gotten so bad, the best qualified refuse to run and the least qualified are leading our great nation.
Where are they? They are all around us. Unrecognized, doing their job daily, making mistakes, leading law abiding lives, fearful of what they see, yet refusing to take a stand and have their lives destroyed. Who cares if they had affairs, got a DUI in their early years, smoked, but never inhaled, or never served in the military? I believe we are reaching beyond the requirement of the position for which they are running and setting standards higher than most can achieve today. It is the issues and ability of the candidate to lead that should be the major influence. The media treats us as idiots who do not have the intelligence to decide the direction we want America to take.
Forget the media; let's get back to electing officials who can get the job done. Obviously, what we are experiencing now is not working.
You who are without sin, cast the first stone or get the hell out of the way. The ramblings of a madman, you decide.
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