True leader needs to come forth

To the editor:

Anyone can look and find these signs that our constitutional republic has become so broken that we are no longer Earth’s most prosperous nation.

1. Too many Americans allow themselves to be ruled — not led — in the work of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Elected representatives don’t harvest and organize the fruits of their citizens’ minds to optimize government. They make people docile by gratifying the greed and prejudices of population factions. This makes people accept being ruled to get more of the same.

2. Too many Americans are lured to consume and be entertained more than they are coaxed to produce and work. Debt slavery is thus openly developed in the name of practicing “American freedoms.”

3. Too many political officials conspire to artificially maintain American standard of living and industrial productivity by using money borrowed from banks and foreign nations. This money subsidizes individual, company and corporate welfare that substitutes for real individual and business prosperity. Unsustainable borrowing has historically compelled nations to balance the books with plausibly justified war and territorial aggression.

4. Too many Americans permit a natural conspiracy, consisting of an elected and appointed elite, to run U.S. foreign relations. Such an aristocracy predictably uses foreign aid bribes and then “military aid” to compel foreign cooperation. That’s why most of our allies are practical dictatorships or bribeable single-party “democracies.” This foreign relations aristocracy compels the American public to support all this with national security propaganda and fear-mongering based on its unsupervised judgment of who America’s enemies are.

It’s true that we need a revolution. But no human leader will ever come forth who can compensate for the cowardice of too many people who just sit around waiting for a political messiah.

It’s only the magic of numerous citizens looking into mirrors and seeing people courageous enough to bear parts of the leadership burden that can save our country’s life.

“As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of 15 years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.” John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, Aug. 24, 1815.

Stuart Thompson

Wasilla