If we could read the secret history of our enemies 

we would like to punish

we would find in each life a sorrow and suffering

enough to disarm all our hostility.

Henry. Wadsworth Longfellow as quoted by Magaret Wheatley in her book Restoring Sanity

Never elect or promote a leader who is given to revenge and retribution.  You may, or may not, be morally inclined to retribution, but this time morality is not the central issue.   While morality may be part of the problem, a person who is bound to revenge and retribution is shackled to the person or people he feels he must hate and is not free to lead his or her people.  The revengeful person’s range of action and intelligence is dictated by and to the nature of his declared enemies.  We are currently being led by a man who might have been great but for his addiction to revenge.  His savage need for retribution for his perceptions of crimes against him have diminished not only his range of accomplishment, but because of his position, the range of an entire nation.  For this reason the nation’s enemies feel free to lead our nation’s leader down the roads of their own choice.  Leaders chained to retribution and revenge are  consequently susceptible to manipulation.

Very Modest Proposal for Good

Leadership is a vocation that rises from the soul. From the soul comes creativity and community bound to an open ended curiosity. From the soul comes options for lasting peace in an infinite variety.  Leadership is a guided meditation into a mystery that only a guide with courage can translate into good and practical outcomes serving all.  The future guides are here in this country right now so lets find them, elect them, promote them.  That would be good.