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"the leadership." heh...I can't help but think of Big Brother when I hear a term like that used to describe the president and the rest of government.
The way I see it, with a government of the people, for the people, and by the people, it is impossible for those in government to be "the leadership." They (theoretically at least) get their orders from the citizenry and, thus, WE are "the leadership." All approximately 300 million of us. If the government is "the leadership" (and I don't mean to discuss de facto standards here, because we all know the government has been ACTING like "the leadership" - with our willing complacence of course) then it is no longer a government FOR the people, but a government ABOVE the people. Any government that can TELL me to go die (let's face it, that's what it's doing) as opposed to explaining, and explaining well, why I should feel genuinely threatened and want to fight for my country is not a government SERVING me. It is my master.
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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling
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