All those looking for "LEADERS" Have you figured out the Leaders are US?

[KoKo]

US meaning "We the People" and not the abbreviation for US (United States).

What brings this to mind is a C-Span Forum on African-Americans and the Media today.

One of the African-American Leaders on the "Eisenhower Institutes Panel" of discussion said: "We have forums and discussions with emminent Academicians ...people who have great credentials...but the MEDIA always asks: 'Will Jesse Jackson be there, or will M'Fumai be there?'

Her point was that the MSM only will come and listen and report if there's what they "THINK" will be a Black Leader there so they can get a great quote for the Wire Services or one of the MSM Top Newspapers...otherwise...they Do Not BOTHER!

She said: "People want to know WHO OUR LEADER IS!"

I wonder myself who the AMERICAN PEOPLE want as their LEADER...

What IF...OUR LEADER AT THIS PERILOUS MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY...is left to US .."WE,THE PEOPLE" on Blogs and working for Charities and Environmental Groups and Voter Rights Groups and all the rest of what we are doing.

What if HILLARY and OBAMA...and EDWARDS and the REST...ARE NOT the LEADERS??? WHAT IF? THEY SHOULD BE FOLLOWERS?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Preach it on

I have been preaching this since oh 2003

Problem is that many folks have ahem forgotten that little detail

[KoKo]

2. It takes a while for us all to realize

"peasants with pitchforks and stones" are primitive...but always get the job done...after awhile...and it takes awhile. :shrug:

[cadmium]

8. Republicans know this --- they put up

figureheads and sell them as leaders. Don't for a minute think that the Republicans ever considered GWB or Ronald Reagan to be real leaders.

[Joanne98]

3. Alice Walker: "We are the ones we've been waiting for"....

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[KoKo]

5. The "light in the inner time of darkness" for many of us was STOLEN ELECTION 2000!

We've been out there slogging along...creating and sustaining the INTERNETS with BLOGS and COMMENTS and ACTIVISM!

We WILL NOT FORGET! WE...are THE PEOPLE...WHO MUST LEAD!!!!

(this is my Christmas Epiphany...sorry if it rings false...but we HAVE NOTHING LEFT!)

[Joanne98]

6. We have been creating a movement. You just can't see it yet..

We are changing the minds of the people. I can really see them waking up.

[KoKo]

13. Good Point...and that's my hope..."we just can't see it, yet."

It's growing under our grassroots feet but it feels like there are so many set backs that we can't see it...but it's growing...and greener under our feet... bit by bit...day by day...a little at a time...

[RestoreGore]

4. Amen to that

I always thought that looking to one person alone to "save us" was a cop out. I also think we are definitely coming to a point where the people will realize that it will have to be us who lead. Isn't that the true spirit of being an American? The big question is, can the American people as a whole do that? Or are they too anesthesized by television and other diversions to even care?

[KoKo]

7. Yes...True Spirit of America was all of those coming here for HOPE of a

BETTER LIFE...not some American Dynasty run by another King George or former Presidents looking to Re-Make their Image!!!

Both Georges and the Clintons had their time...but their travelers and hangers on want to "RE-DO" their former Power and re-make it in their image for the Text Books!

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!

It's OUR TIME to TAKE IT BACK!!! All us IMMIGRANTS whether we've been here a LONG TIME or JUST ARRIVED!

We have GOT TO MAKE THIS WORK! We didn't come here for another ROMAN EMPIRE/DYNASTY that would FAIL IN ENDLESS WAR AND OCCUPATION OF FOREIGN TERRITORIES!

We all left our "home countries" to GET AWAY FROM THAT OPPRESSION!

Oppresion from EMPIRE or DOGMATIC RELIGIOUS FERVOR...WE LEFT BECAUSE....WE were OPPRESSED!

[FogerRox]

9. This is so friggin right, in so many ways

Easy choice to KNR

[Debs]

10. Exactly so

Eugene Debs once said something like if I could lead you into the promised land like Moses I would not do so because if I could lead you in someone else could lead you out. WE are the top layer of government and WE are the ones that need to lead. I say we demand an end to the Iraq war and impeachment in that order.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. In what sense?

This is one of those things that sounds like a truism but on examination turns out to be meaningless, I think.

There are 300,000,000 people in the US. If that's a leader, it's an incredibly scizophrenic one.

One could make a case that politicians should adopt the most popular position on every issue, but it's not a position I would ever support.

The basis of the American people is not that the people "are the leader" in any sense, but that they get to choose who leads. I think this is a far better approach.

[KoKo]

12. When our Government and Both Parties Fail us by installing Criminals

(stealing an election and invading a country who didn't attack us on "9/11" then it would seem it's UP TO US..(We the People!)...no? :shrug:

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. I don't think that's a meaningful statement.

Who are you referring to as "we the people"; and who are you excluding from that category?

What action are you proposing that the people you're referring to as "we the people" take, and do you think they are going to do it?

Your comments are phrased in the broadest of broad generalities; I don't think there's any way to translate them to specifics.

It's very comforting to have a faceless "them" to blame for all the world's ills, and an "us" to be absolved of responsibility, but I think it's a temptation to be avoided. People don't divide up into "them" and "us" - two monolithic blocks with one agenda each - they divide up into "me" and "you" and "him" and "him" and "her".

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. You will never beat the leader fetish here on DU

It is rampant and deeply-entrenched. And deeply fascist.