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Beyond the Rhetoric
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August 24, 2009, talkhousemag.com
Why are They Becoming Hysterical?
I have been on this earth for over six decades and I have never seen such a repetitious amount of temper tantrums, paranoia, propaganda and verbal eruptions directed towards political leaders. All of a sudden our structured and proven leadership models are becoming inefficient. The old saying of the late columnist Robert Novak seems to have taken hold: “Love your country; don’t trust the government”. Just what is causing this? Here’s my take.
We have always had a crisis to deal with such as The Depression, World War II, Korean War, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, etc. It was rather easy then because they came one at a time. In this modern era of nanoseconds and instant information, things are starting to come at rapid fire. We are involved in two wars simultaneously with no apparent end in sight. The reasons for them are faulty at best and the respect and care we give our brave troops is less than admirable and, in fact, despicable. We are still going through the sub-prime mortgage fiasco in addition to the Wall St. Bailout, record unemployment and the worst debt our national treasury has ever seen. From a leadership perspective the solutions are not clear. Fear has set in and what Franklin D. Roosevelt warned us about (“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”) has settled in and is gripping our conscience. |
