we need leadership

i'm not an authority, i'm not an expert. i haven’t written a book, studied law or politics for school or credit. i’m not involved in politics. i'm just an american. a person, like you and everyone else, with perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about america and us as a working system. i see this system not working because there is no true leadership.

i've thought for some time now that it's time speak about this place; to the people. things need to be said and we need to start listening to people that are willing to tell you the truth. the times are turning downward; to black; to ashes; to smoke - in most places, but in america, it seems we have a little more time to make the 180 out of the downward spiral.

but my truth is sometimes harsh and hard and, well, too inhuman for people with a blinding pursuit of hope to swallow. I don’t blame them. It’s good they are that way and haven’t given up. We need more people like that. On the other hand, blind hope sets us further and further away from reality and when it comes time to face it those people have prevented themselves from being completely prepared to deal with and accept reality. the truth can’t be generic, or softened, or pc, or void of passion, or what’s accepted by the “experts”, endorsed by the hand that feed and control us, or one liners. truth is complex.

the truth starts with leadership; passed along by leadership; and protected by leadership and is not swayed by anything. there in lies the problem. people are easily swayed. and our leadership has been swayed for many, many years.

leadership needs to start coming from the youth of this country. we need to take notice and start climbing up to those positions. there are too many older generations at the helm, trying to direct this country down old rusted, warped tracks that worked a long time ago., but america today is different, i don’t need to tell you that, we all know that. Unfortunately that hasn’t really sunk in yet. the generations of tomorrow are getting lost; getting tired to fast; getting overstepped; getting sloppy; getting too apathetic; getting too destructive, getting lied to, getting distracted, getting forsaken. all these people fighting to take control of our lives and direction of america are just trying to make a name for themselves, etching there names in history; making a career in “making a change”, “we need change”, “change”, “this country needs change”, “the people want change”. undoubtedly over the decades we seemed to have gotten worse and worse and worse, a little more here a little more there; masking the bad with 20 or 30 band-aid policies and laws that will eventually, progressively fail the people and the rare one good change coming out of every 2 or 3 administrations that makes little impact to the overall failing machine. and then they distract our attention daily to make us forget the little things here and there that are corroding our land, our home, from the inside out.

i know for sure the systems we deal with everyday, in schools, in medicine, for consumer goods, of corporations, of our finances, in banks, of credit cards, for family expectation, even of entertainment work against us. i know for sure the law doesn’t really work for people. i know for sure the police don’t serve or protect us. i know for sure this government doesn’t really work for people. i know for sure we don’t care about each other. there’s just too many things to name that work against us.

i don’t pretend to know all the answers for everything, but i can offer some answers to some of our problems that we seem to ignore, or simply don't realize. the truths about us and america are hard to hear and accept, but it's important to not rant about them, so i want to take some time thinking about how to present them to you. it's important to not get the wrong message across. i have hope in a better america. i'm also blinded by hope. maybe some of you out there will understand and see some truth in what i say. others may not, but the great thing about that is with the willingness to discuss we can come to an understanding. something lost in america today. true understanding.

i wish i could be a leader. we desperately need good leaders real bad these days. i wish i could become a leader, but i’m not charismatic or elegant in speech. unfortunately that is one trait that matters more than what is actually said by most "leaders."