Another week is here. We seek them here and we seek them there the elusive leader we desperately need. When I was a lad the adults in my orbit told me that I lived in the greatest country on the face of the earth. I considered if there had been a contest or a runoff and I had not been a party to the results. When I asked the criteria for the award I was assured that we believed in Truth. We were a government of the people and by the people. We had fought the Revolutionary War to ensure that we would not have to bow the knee to the king. Religious freedom was always mentioned and a dedication to the enshrined creed, ‘that all men were created equal with certain unalienable rights among them were life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’

The middle-aged and younger adults that were in my life had fought and died in World War II. They had not read in history books about Hitler they had fought Nazism up close and personal. Most of them had lived through the Great Depression. They understood from real-time events what deprivation destruction and fascism were. There was not an academic question about service in our military because there was a draft. All men served and women replaced them on the factory floor and made the armaments to use against our enemies.

The Greatest Generation was wary of Con-Men and Snake Oil Salesmen. They had witnessed the preening and strutting of Benito Mussolini. They saw Auschwitz and the emaciated Jewish people. They smelled the acrid smoke of the furnaces. Freedom is not free and is not the domain of narcissistic lunatics as it had been given to in Europe in WW II.

Now we ‘Pop a Top My Friend’ and laugh about the Woke Agenda. We take as Truth the inane ramblings of conspiracy theorists who have less than our best interest at heart and more of their hidden agenda. We turn the dial or scroll until we find the commentary that agrees with our prejudice and provides the answer to why we are left out of modern society.

Former Presidential candidates who not long ago admitted that the last Presidential Election was won by their opponent are now in line to be picked as the running mate of the leading Presidential Candidate will not say yes or no if they will accept the results of the Election in November…

God have mercy on us if these self-same leader candidates have to ever make a life-and-death decision that affects us all…