She is a great writer who has captured many of my thoughts very well recently (especially her article about ‘our mother’ = earth).
Unfortunately I think a great many things need to happen for true leadership to make and/or want to make a difference in our country these days. Not the very least of which is legislation forcing candidates to focus on policy as opposed to politics of personal destruction, free and available advertisements to candidates and encompassing inclusion in debates (not just Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum like 2004, where they barred any other candidates from even being included). Campaign finance needs to be addressed - $4billion dollars spent on a presidential election is ridiculous. Amazing that when we were in high school or junior high that we used to handle this better huh? I think there were limits of like 100-200 dollars that could be spent by a candidate for student class president in high school.
The barriers between true leadership taking hold and being allowed in the White House are formidable and they are not on accident. JFK and what happened to him and Bill Clinton and what happened to him (with the blue dress) were not a coincidence – both men were fighting against a very large, powerful war machine that wanted to use some of their toys, respectfully, in Vietnam and Iraq. And what did this war machine get as soon as these two men and sometimes leaders, sometimes womanizers were removed?
The undercurrent pulling at our country we have to face and talk about directly: vast international corporations and extremely wealthy individuals that are being extremely gluttonous. There is a reason why those folks at the top of our leadership positions (in government and often even in business) have such dead eyes and beaten down souls generally – you don’t get there any other way.
Unfortunately I think a great many things need to happen for true leadership to make and/or want to make a difference in our country these days. Not the very least of which is legislation forcing candidates to focus on policy as opposed to politics of personal destruction, free and available advertisements to candidates and encompassing inclusion in debates (not just Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum like 2004, where they barred any other candidates from even being included). Campaign finance needs to be addressed - $4billion dollars spent on a presidential election is ridiculous. Amazing that when we were in high school or junior high that we used to handle this better huh? I think there were limits of like 100-200 dollars that could be spent by a candidate for student class president in high school.
The barriers between true leadership taking hold and being allowed in the White House are formidable and they are not on accident. JFK and what happened to him and Bill Clinton and what happened to him (with the blue dress) were not a coincidence – both men were fighting against a very large, powerful war machine that wanted to use some of their toys, respectfully, in Vietnam and Iraq. And what did this war machine get as soon as these two men and sometimes leaders, sometimes womanizers were removed?
The undercurrent pulling at our country we have to face and talk about directly: vast international corporations and extremely wealthy individuals that are being extremely gluttonous. There is a reason why those folks at the top of our leadership positions (in government and often even in business) have such dead eyes and beaten down souls generally – you don’t get there any other way.
