Originally Posted by
Synnen
Why do OUR leaders have to be the visionaries?
Why does it yet again fall on the backs and shoulders of the American people to be the saviours of the world?
Get your OWN visionary leaders, and let them lead the rest of the world out of subjugation!
I don't see visionary leadership in ANY country, not just my own.
I also see hypocrites at every turn--whether the hypocrisy is political, religious, emotional, or ethical.
I see an entire generation of people--and NOT just in the United States--brought up with the "entitlement" attitude.
I can think of ALL SORTS of revolutionary ways to change things. The problem is that other people don't agree with me, and therefore create opposition that my ideas are too harsh and won't work the way that I want them to. So--we're divided and opposing each other simply because I don't like someone else's ideas, and they don't like mine.
Who gets to win that? I'm being serious now. You can take the sarcasm in the previous paragraph with a grain of salt--but I'm serious about the fact that the opposition isn't JUST for opposition's sake. On a smaller scale, simply look at the previous conversations Speechlesstx and I have had on the topic of Planned Parenthood. On the surface, we're divided and opposing each other just to oppose each other--but we BOTH feel strongly about our different points of view on the topic. So--should we just stop opposing each other, or what? Who wins?
Now how do you expect a GOVERNMENT to do better with MORE people sticking their ideas in the pot, and representing their constituants who have even MORE ideas about the "right" thing to do in any situation?
Where's YOUR vision? Why are you not stopping at least your part of the world from the U.S. "dragging the rest of you down with it"?
You have the SAME pessimistic attitude of the masses that I have. And you have it for the same reasons, really. But don't blame it solely on the U.S. We are not the ONLY place in the world with corrupt and argumentative governments.