The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts.  Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t concede their minds and hearts.  Our current leadership can’t seem to wrap their comprehension around this core unvarying truth in this current war.  We seem to have leaders whose only gifts are to lose wars to the hearts and minds of common people in struggling nations.  There is a power the trumps military advantaged and even that almost cosmic pun buried in the common card games has not penetrated the dull comprehension of our warring leaders.

Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower understood the importance of a good mind and a strong heart.  They led our nation out of the darkest times, not with military performance alone, but through balancing the American spirit on the fulcrum of our Constitution.  The rebuilding might have been a singularity in greatness. The post WWII kind of leadership was not a magic trick, but rather an act of faith built on disciplined skill.  For all the religiosity of this current administration it seems to lack  the faith required by both God and human leadership.  The insults and name calling and misuse of theology betray brutish minds and closed hearts; a blend of character repellent to the world’s populations.

Modest Proposal for Good

Odd and mistaken as this nation has been and can be, it also gathered the world’s admiration after World War II, not so much because it had a powerful enough military capable of defending the free world, but because it showed a unheard of capacity to nurture peace and healing after the war.  This new testosterone driven Department of War is, as far as the world is concerned foretells the end of the United States the world had come to rely on. This new dark energy seems to mark the end of the spirit that put wind in our flag.  We must make sure it is not the end of one of the world’s largest democracies.  We must consolidate and collect good minds and strong hearts in our majority, whatever we call that majority and trudge on. Aside from human rights, no other political issue can compete with rebuilding the mind and heart of America.  This writer will vote for whomever vows to do that and shows the credentials of leadership.  That would be good beyond measure.