When thinking is actually used in our decisions the logical
outcome is decidedly more productive and beneficial. Thinking for most seems to be a rarity rather
than a common practice. How often do we
really ponder the problems and deliberate the choices? More often than not we accept the perceived
inevitability as the way it’s supposed to be and give those monumental
decisions a pass of supposed certainty rather than the homage to personal
choice that should be made at each and every juncture of our lives.
So it is with our political choices. We have the primaries that weed out the
unacceptable and sustain the inevitable candidates. We then have the elections that predetermine
our choices and mandate a choice of right or wrong when in the reality of life
there is a monumental difference in how we should be electing our leaders.
Trump seems to be the favorite despite the efforts of the
right to command a choice otherwise. And
Clinton seems
to be the favorite in spite of the public's demand for an alternate option. What we are left with is fundamentally the
lesser of two evils and that is no choice that anyone should ever have to make.
The political system of parties is partly to blame, with a
two party system only two will emerge as victorious and only two will have the
chance of being elected. The hope of a
third party is never really considered as a reality since the voting block of
that candidate inevitably helps one of the two major candidates win the
election. For years the two party system
has served us well and has kept the coalition style government from our shores,
but when we actually think about the choices we are provided the reality of
choice is no where to be found and the realization of a coalition or back room
merger process emerges rather than the democratic style we are brought up to
revere.
When are choices are so mind-numbingly predictable (not in
knowing who but in an absolute surety of the what) it’s time we had other
choices. We need strong candidates who
fulfill the mandate of leadership but forsake the party system. We need someone who looks toward the
constitution and the founding fathers as a guide to that leadership and
sustains the integrity of our country without having to sell their souls to any
particular party or organization.
Hopeless you say? Perhaps it is
the rambling of an aging blogger but the hope remains and the reality, albeit
statistically minuscule is still a possibility.
Trump may be that person.
He may be the kind of leader we have been hoping for. He may be the white horse of promise the
transcends the political, while being political enough to transcend the old
guard in order to get elected but at the same time being true to the unspoken
mandate of a true leader, an entrepreneurial politician that overshadows the
past foundations of what a politician is and sets that new standard that
millions are willing to follow.
The hope for Trump is high but the hope for a true leader is
even higher. Not by name but by idea the
dreams Americans pursue, eager to tread where a true leader walks, looking
toward that vision of what should be rather than the nightmare that almost
assuredly always is.
Trump is not a dark horse or a slender hope, bankrolled by
his billions, but an idea of a man, any man, who can be the triumphant and a skilled
warrior, facing off all comers to stand victorious over the vanquished, that
gleam in his eye as he wields the sword of truth and justice….ooh my it sounds
like I want a superhero. Not a superhero
just an adequate leader that does and says what he says he will do, not the
typical mealy-mouthed and oily tongued, two faced, weak and wiggly minion to
the bureaucratic nightmare that is our country and what it has become.
Wishful thinking, perhaps but it is possible, if still very
improbable. The chances of such a
leader rising though the ranks of that political machine unscathed by its evil
is very slim. It is more a tangential
thought than a thunderous hope. We are
in desperate need of honest leadership.
Our society is crumbling and our very foundation is cracking and
splitting, we risk so much if there is not a suitable choice to rally behind.
But then I think that most do not believe as I believe. Most do not see the inevitable destruction of
a beacon nation, all they see is change and so what if we are not the super
power of the earth. So what if we are
not the moral harbinger of the world, maybe it is someone else’s turn to rule
and reign.
It is a relative world these days. Everything we think and do has its basis on
how we feel making any moralistic mandates old and antiquated so why wish for
that ever diminishing moral life?
Because without morality all we have is secularism and with secularism
all we have are excuses for immoral behavior and an even greater need for
strong and moral leadership. Trump,
Donald Trump may not be the man but he may encompass the dream of what we want
and that may be enough to start the revolution away from the complacent
mediocrity that has become our system of government.
I want more, I demand more, I expect more and I will vote
for what I think we deserve, so should you.
