MORE ON LEADERS

To begin this blog “More on Leaders” I want to say this last election resulted in some new representatives who show real promise to be great leaders. Let us hope they can survive the ordeal.

None of the questions I pose can be answered until we deal with the major problem, money. There is so much money in politics that democracy is impossible.

In theory capitalism may be able to coexist with democracy. I am sure it can. However, the current form of virulent capitalism makes democracy impossible. The latest Supreme Court decision based on the idea that money is speech put the final knife in the corpse of the republic.

An aside: How could any sane person equate speech and money? Our constitution stresses equality. Money makes people unequal. It couldn't be more obvious. Equating speech and money is on its face unconstitutional. End of aside.

The latest Supreme Court decision allows individuals and groups to contribute money to their cause and remain anonymous. Buying elections has become easier. Look at how much was spent on this last mid-term. Probably enough to send a generation of our children through college.

I don't think there is a way to get money out of politics legislatively. We can make it more difficult, but as long as we worship money, I think it is hopeless. It will take a change in consciousness. It is happening. I could see it in this last election. It will be a little while yet before the old money structure crumbles.

I was having a conversation about this situation about thirty years ago. I can't remember who with. To sum up the conversation this person said, “You know Gregg, the shit rises to the top.” I thought about that many times since. In the last thirty years it has become much worse.

How many capable leaders are so put off by the stench that they don't even want to try.

I dream of the time when money is only a means of exchange and not an object of worship. Can you imagine a society where the most loving and understanding rise to the top? A society where the most enlightened become the leaders?

I know it is going to happen. I would like it to be in my lifetime.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!

Love and Peace, Gregg