America's True Crisis: Zero Vision, Zero Leadership by Jim Hightower

[Better Believe It]

America's True Crisis: Zero Vision, Zero Leadership
by Jim Hightower
March 16, 2011

The greatest problem our nation faces can be summed up in one word: leadership. OK, make that three words: lack of leadership.

America's corporate, political, media, academic and other leaders aren't. They're not leaders — because they refuse to stand tall, be bold, offer vision, inspire and ... well, lead. We've got too many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. They're squishing the historic can-do spirit of the American people, reducing it to a dispiriting ethic of surrender that says we-shouldn't-even-try.

Start with our leaders' willful abdication of the American dream. They've given up on the notion of producing a shared prosperity that creates a broad middle class. For more than a decade now, Wall Street and Washington have let millions of jobs disappear and pushed wages down. They now yawn at the entrenched jobs crisis that is eating the middle class, and rather than responding to the plight of millions of hard-hit families, they're trying to bust unions and kill minimum-wage laws.

These people are pathetic. And shameful. You can't call yourself a leader if you're too weak and too afraid to lead.

Read the full article at:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/16-7

[montanacowboy]

1. Send a copy to the Oval Office

n/t

[WiffenPoof]

2. Good Article...

....must read.

-PLA

[OHdem10]

3. Amen Amen Amen. They gave up on shared prosperity long

ago.

[highplainsdem]

4. K&R

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[hootinholler]

6. Kick for tonight. n/t

[hootinholler]

7. Kick for tonight. n/t

[enough]

8. And I'm still wondering sometimes why I thought Barack Obama would be a leader.

I wasn't expecting a savior, just a leader. I'm old enough that I should have known better.

[Liberal_Dog]

9. K & R

[whatchamacallit]

10. Plain and Simple

and True.

[yurbud]

11. 100% corruption with zero conscience or shame

[ReggieVeggie]

12. Amen Jim

Obama held so much promise, but he gives much better speechres than he does leadership.

[ReggieVeggie]

13. kick

[ReggieVeggie]

14. no comments from the box seats?

:shrug:

[RadiationTherapy]

15. So poor people develop character by being poor and enduring and pulling themselves up.

What does that philosophy imply for those of inherited wealth? We are a confused nation.

[Poboy]

16. True

[chervilant]

17. Worse yet,

these "Captains of Industry" have destroyed the global economy. We're seeing the first throes of catastrophic economic change, and the corporatists (and their political lackeys--the POTUS du jour included) are hoping to keep the onus of the destruction on the shoulders of the hoi polloi.

Class warfare doesn't BEGIN to describe what they're doing.