We need political, religious and business leaders at all levels who are unafraid to tell America that we have been using up our seed corn for decades, and that it will take decades of what a great man called "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" - in a much reviled word, austerity - to get back to our former greatness.
Instead we get "leaders" who tell their followers that the solutions are easy, fast and cheap, and that someone else (who is absolutely Not Them) will be forced to pay for it all.
I am reasonably confident that no one who tells Americans the truth that they need to hear will ever be elected.
I am reasonably confident that no one who tells Americans the truth that they need to hear will ever be elected.
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I think that statement depends on the circumstances.
Before the Zimmerman telegram, the united States was dead set against entering into the conflict of World War I...the Great War....the War to End ll Wars. Overnight, on the publication of the Zimmerman telegram, Americans were signing up by the thousands willing to fight and the entire country united behind the effort.
Back to the same isolationist scenario prior to our entry into WW II. We had an Armed Force smaller than that of Belgium. Then came Pearl Harbor and Winston Churchill immediately boarded a ship for the U.S. It took one day for America to declare war on Japan and that was shortly followed by Germany declaring war on us...their greatest mistake.
We have been frittering away our strength and our national treasure ever since Vietnam. It has taken the wakeup call of constant attacks from the Muslims to stir our blood again. America is ANGRY. We are going to do something about it. We are going to do something about everything that has gone wrong since the Communist infiltration...and new world order advocates have been destroying the greatest country the world has ever seen. We are not looking for a corrupt female to lead us out of purgatory, we are looking for a successful, intelligent, LEADER and we’ve found one in Donald Trump. This country’s future depends on November 8th. We come back from the ashes on that date, or we are gone forever. We must have Faith.
The question is often asked, “Do the times make the men, or do the men make the times?” I believe it is some of both.