In my opinion, our leaders are, but for a small and very elite number, the “problem to the answer” relative to the people and organizations they lead. By ignoring the importance of relationships and dialogue, these “leaders” instead allow the love and thirst for power to come between them and those they lead. Elected leaders are just as guilty of this, if not more so.
So, this paper will focus on problems caused by the lack of communication between representative leaders and the majority of the public. Please note that I write “representative” because they are not true leaders but elected citizens who are supposed to speak for the people who elected them. Yet, this is hardly the case.
Example: The killing of children in Texas and the inability of Congress to do something to confront the problem posed by semi and fully automatic weapons of war in the hands of citizens. To what end are such weapons allowed to be sold? Certainly not to hunt! And why are these representatives refusing to make better and safer gun ownership rules for all of us?
Democracy as an idea is remarkable because it offers freedom for all, allowing our voice to be heard by our elected leaders, who are supposed to listen and represent us. Too often, these representatives speak for a small slice of people and not for the majority. Where oh where is our representative government? And, when I suggest a World Governing Body, I do not intend to eliminate Nations but to deal more effectively with world issues such as Environment, Rogue Nations, Trade, and the population explosion. I believe it is a matter of “When,” not “if.”
Haiku: Democracy best—For all to benefit from—Oligarchs, be gone.
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