In just a few short weeks, America will face the polls to
choose the next president. Unfortunately, the pickings are slim and formerly
good leaders are falling in lock and step behind our two biggest candidates,
instead of standing up and encouraging us to turn our backs on them. A select
number of Republican candidates have stood up and spoken out against Trump
after having formerly supported him, which is a positive. However, only a few
have said they would never support him, such as Mitt Romney, and truthfully
that’s the way we all should have been from the beginning.
I think I understand some of the motivation surrounding the
begrudging support conservative leaders continue to give Trump –
altruistically, it may be that they see no other option, as Hillary Clinton
definitely doesn’t stand for what they do. I have heard reasons such as the
next president will appoint new Supreme Court Justices, which I agree puts a
lot a stake for either side. Trump might have a platform that says he stands
for Conservative ideals, but who he is has been shown to be far from the image
of integrity and true leadership than right wing voters have been looking for.
Why did it get this far? And why are more people in positions of leadership not
encouraging the country to vote for someone who they can actually trust, whom
we don’t have to do mental gymnastics to defend?
With Hillary, it’s not much different. Although my politics
are not left wing, I can see that as a person she has some real deficiencies
that should not be overlooked. These are easy to find, and it goes above and
beyond recent years of politics, but back to when her husband was president. I
am not putting his faults on her – she has a track record that is not worthy of
the highest office in the land. And yet there she stands, the standard bearer
of the liberal side, giving the liberals a bad option, just as the
conservatives have in Trump.
I ask, where have all
the good men and women gone? Where are true leaders, with wisdom and integrity
and goodness? Why can’t we say no to following along with the wrong people? Why
did we vote them in as our candidates in the first place? We see, we hear the
things they do – their incompetence is so blatantly obvious that maybe it’s
become par for the course to accept it. It’s sad to watch. Don’t we deserve a
true leader? A leader, not a dictator or a person who lies to our face with a
sly smile, waiting for us to give them a pass on the shenanigans they fail to
acknowledge, or pretend to acknowledge, then move on to the next lie. We as a
people are smarter than this but is it fear that causes us to stand up and say
no? If we aren’t the gatekeepers, barring the unworthy politicians and
nonpoliticians alike to enter the White House, who will be? We are the voters.
We must be more responsible in who we allow to be our standard bearer. Trump
and Clinton certainly do not represent me. And I won’t follow either of them.
Will you?
