Assuming the mantle of leadership carries with it both perks and disadvantages. It confers power on the individual, the ability to move mountains even, but it also places limits on that power by forcing the leader to work with those who have the power to check its outer reaches. It demands responsibility, courage and righteousness as well as realpolitik from the leader, a tough load, but a good leader, a proper leader, will know the proper way to take on that load and thrive.
Leadership also puts that same leader on the hot seat, no matter the level of leadership, be it a small or local organization to the president of a country. That hot seat means that from the first second of taking office, there will be critics and criticism, some correct, some not, some fair and some nasty. It is the nature of the beast. If one cannot eat that nasty part of being a leader, then one must step away from the table.
Unfortunately, today in the USA we have a leader who has so ignobly fallen down on the job. Ill experienced when entering office, but carrying the hopes and good wishes of many with him, he did not grow with the job in a good way. Instead, he became obsessed with the idea of a "legacy", something big which would become implanted in the historical annals of his reign and he has failed miserably. Partially, it was not his fault, as he had to deal with an opposition Congress, but instead of working with the opposition, difficult as it may have been, he fought and fought and now the urge to legacy is within its last year of possibility. What will be left to place in his library?
So along comes an Iran deal, one which is now spoken of as "yes, a bad deal, but the best one we can get and if not this, then it will be war." Well, I along with many others, feel that this is a dangerously stupid statement. One does not settle on such an issue, but instead stands firm and stands tall and does not use scare tactics, else we might as well light up flags of Iran and scream "Death to the real Satan!" But one does not do that; instead one needs to grow up and take the high and hard road and go at it.
Instead, we have the President of the United States returning to the language and implications of a terrible hatred and words that smear and negatively imply things in both a hurtful and dangerous manner. Suddenly the opponents are slammed as "warmongers beating the drums of war" and told that they were the ones who forced us into the original war in Iraq. I THINK NOT!!!!
They are cursed as lobbyists. Well, lobbyists are not always my favored class of careerists, but there are lobbyists for everything in Washington, including for Iraq, for health, for agriculture, big and small and the list goes on. If not for lobbyists, half the buildings in DC would be empty! So why this sudden cursing of this particular group of lobbyists. It smacks of something truly nasty, a feeling perhaps learned at the knees of a certain pastor? It also does not behoove a leader to threaten his opponents with the statement to the effect that if they lay off the Iran deal, he will lay off the Jews. Really! Son of a ------. Sorry, folks, we have been here before and have had hateful presidents such as Carter, but one does not expect it of this one.
And then of course, we have our own local president, David Israel, another one whose powers have gone to his head, inducing him to further seek to grow these powers, to keep these powers with him and his intended heirs, to become a dictatorship, to place upon CV the parameters of a banana republic! Towards that end he has refused all extended hands of offered partnership, of cooperative work for the sake of the Village. He has violated the by laws of the Village, twisted them per his whims and needs of the moment, made a mockery of UCO in that he has turned it into the UCO of the few and the defiler of the needs of the many. He has done the same with most every other public institution in the Village, employed tactics which violate the rights of every resident here and thrown many of his opponents into the figurative gulags of Siberia.
And most of all, he, too, cannot deal with opposition, with the words and statements of his opponents and thinks he is above all that, immune to the criticism that a leader incurs. So to him and his, I say too - get away from the table if you cannot eat what is thrown at you, justifiably thrown at you and incurred due to one's own behavior and actions.
We must do better in the next election - for both presidents - for if not, I shudder to think what future we might be facing in both arenas. We must parse each individual running for President of the USA and we must choose carefully how we even choose our candidates here in CV and the first thing to do is to insure that David Israel not be allowed to run again via TERM LIMITS BEING REINSTATED. Think about it folks.
I gotta tell ya, more and more I see the image of G-d shrugging His big shoulders, sighing, and place kicking this sad world of ours off into space and rolling up His sleeves to start all over again. Instead of evolving we seem to be devolving. Time to stand up in all spheres of life and fight for what is right and proper - before it is too late in many ways.
For both presidents and their minions, here is an apt thought for you to think about even as you continue to mouth threats of revenge. It is from John Milton.
"Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils." That snake chasing you is really your own tail coming back to haunt you.
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