Lead, Follow, Or Get Out of The Way

Often leadership requires having a vision for things that others don't see and showing other people how much these things matter. This can be tough in a democracy with all our competing goals, agendas, and crackpot priorities.

While you're worried about fitting healthcare, fuel prices, higher education and what not into your budget, gay people are getting married and burning flags. While you think we might be discarding the Constitutional ideal of America or submitting to some type of default sanctimonious exceptionalism a handful of dead billionaires are threatened with the prospect of not being able to pass on the entirety of their mammon to their children. While a recent Gallup poll (subscriptions required) suggests these concerns don't show up on most people's radar, we can thank our visionary leaders for letting us know what a danger it is to letting gay people own dogs, have driver's licenses, go to school, buy a house, open a business, writing for newspapers, or any of those other things that we seem to think are legally protected and are foundational to our way of life.

So take it from the twice married and soon to be twice-divorced Britney Spears: "I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes." Isn't that why God ordains our leaders and gives them the vision and authority to tell us what is important when we're too dumb to see it?

Crumbs From Your Table- U2
Fly Me to The Moon- Frank Sinatra
Birds and Ships- Billy Bragg and Wilco
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring- Bach
Criminal Minded- BDP
Black Math- The White Stripes