Maybe it is best not to be designated a role model for other nations. The prognosis does not turn out well at all. In biblical times the people of Israel were to be a light unto the nations, to set an example, to lead the way onto the correct path and look what happened. Destruction and exile and today, an unfair expectation that holds Israel above other nations and their actions. Tough going.
And what about that other nation, not Biblically appointed, but historically appointed- the United States of America. I believe that for many a year we held that position, took it seriously and even as we stumbled, fell, bled, we picked ourselves up again and used the law to make things right. But what a change now. No more do we stand as an example of the right thing to do. Nope, for instead we stand as an example of a nation gone wrong and have become an isolated nation among other nations as the world looks at us as a growing joke.
Wise nations choose wise leaders and if they disappoint they are replaced by others. Sometimes there are errors but usually we have found our way back though it seems that today we are lost, hopelessly lost and we are the ones crying out to be rescued from the desert.
We have a leader at whom people look askance. Just what is he doing now, people wonder. His obsessive behavior, his nasty tweets, his lack of morals, his backing of Roy Moore, his own confession of molesting women, deny it though he now does, his outlandish policy statements and the erratic behavior of his aides- all combine to make him and us a joke unto the nations.
We have lost our way. We have developed a corps of cruel people, people willing to chase after immigrants, legal or not, after special categories of immigrants, adults and children alike, families be damned. Just substitute the uniforms and the dates and the nationality of the people and we have the gendarmes of France, the police of the Netherlands, the informers of Poland as they turned on Jewish people in their town and country, people who had lived there for centuries and people who had come more recently. It did not matter, for the point was to get rid of them just as the point here seems to get rid of them and while all were focused on a physical wall, it seems that Trump et al have built a legal wall that is restricting immigration, and all are "just doing their jobs". Frightening. Here we are not a joke unto the world but an example again, an example of what not to do, of what is wrong and hateful.
But other nations of the world follow in our footsteps for if we are so busy persecuting our own people, turning on our history, our very essence, then why cannot they do the same thing. So the wars in the African states continue and the Rohingya are killed and raped and chased in the hundreds of thousands, we ignore our 'allies' use of child soldiers, all the better to fit our policies and we are now a dangerous joke unto the nations.
We have Richard Spence holding one of his awful events in secret, in disguise and too bad for him that the farmer cancelled him, chased him out, when he was found out!! We have that certifiable spokewoman, Kellyanne Conway, all the aides and the President himself who are under deep and dark gray clouds of suspicion of collusion with the enemy and what, people, do we tell our children, our grandchildren? What do we tell them to explain how we have lost our way, how we have allowed nasty and cruel people to rise to the top, like scum on water, but we have neglected to skim them off!
So we have military officers with the President who behave disreputably with women, and Senators and Representatives who think they have the right of droit de seigneur, and Hollywood figures who think they are in different categories, and minor little men who think their little power is sufficient to oppress the women under their control.
And it seems that no matter who speaks up, be it the ex RNC head, or newcasters with disgust, or people on the street, the nation itself has inverted, with vices and lacks and deficiencies rising forth and all we seem to worry about is if one is standing or kneeling during the anthem. Why not worry what that anthem represents and when it once more comes back to the path of nations that light the way, then perhaps all will stand once more. No more horrific joke unto the nations of the world. Please.
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