The worst we can do as people is pretend to be something we are not. If we think we know it all and are above it all, we clearly are wrong because no one has the monopoly on expertise, knowledge, and experience. Everyone of us has areas of great skill and knowledge, and everyone of us has areas that are lacking--that's the truth of being human.
As I think of this, I think of an experience I recently encountered. I have recently worked with a few leaders who are exceptional--their leadership skills are amazing. Thanks to their thoughtful, intelligent, and well directed leadership, I am able to do very good work at my job and in my life. These leaders don't pretend to know it all, but they do understand that they have good abilities when it comes to leading diverse groups of people toward a common, positive end. I really like being part of a team that has good leadership at the helm.
These leaders, unlike poor leaders like Trump, know the capacity of the people that make up their teams. They turn to their team members when it comes to making decisions and doing good work. They inspire the best of who we are and what we can do, and when we face our weak sides they are there to help. This is so positive. Trump, on the other hand, appears to get angry when his team demonstrates greater intelligence, know-how, and skill than he demonstrates. Rather than acknowledge that no one has the monopoly on knowledge, he steps in with rants, blaming, lies, and incomprehensible strings of phrases that no one really understands. A wise leader would step aside and let the experts lead at times like these.
The challenge we face during this coronavirus pandemic, is based mostly on the highly contagious coronavirus that is spreading the Earth--it's a nasty virus that appears to live long on surfaces and spread quickly from person to person. Few to none on Earth today have experienced such a pandemic. What has made this situation worse is the fact that during the past three years, Trump built a booming economy on a shoddy, weak foundation--the kind of foundation that collapsed quickly when met with the pandemic. You can't expect a country's wealth to stay strong and viable if you base that wealth on industry that pollutes, conflicts with allies, a huge deficit, widening gap between rich and poor, weak health care, social agencies, and education supports, offices staffed with friends and family members rather than best and brightest, many offices not staffed at all or disbanded like the pandemic health team, rallies that promote lies, exaggeration, and disrespect, and the promotion of bigotry and hate. Of course, strength based on a weak foundation will collapse during a great challenge like this pandemic. That collapse will be even greater if we continue to let Trump follow his obsessions to elevate the wealth and popularity of himself, his family members, and a few other wealthy cronies rather than work to serve ALL Americans as his oath of office directs him to do. People must recognize the danger that Trump's self-serving, me-first, obsessive leadership promotes and turn to seasoned, knowledgeable experts in medicine, public health, and the economy for answers now. Trump must step aside and reserve comment so as not to endanger our country or people anymore.
Trump creates terror in our country and in our world. That was clear on the first days of his Presidency when he lied to members of the United States Intelligence. I was willing to give Trump a chance, but when I heard him lie and obsess about the numbers at his inauguration, I knew we were in trouble. Now as his lies add up to tens of thousands, the latest being very harmful as he ridiculed the coronavirus at one of his rallies rather than taking the virus seriously and working against it with the best and brightest in good time, it is clear that he should step down as President of the United States. Those complicit with his poor leadership, bigotry, ignorance, and lies, should also step down as they are doing no one any good in the United States--they, in my opinion, are cowardly, self-serving individuals.
Trump terror is pervasive in the United States. Now it is time to move ahead to Joe Biden who will lead with humanity, empathy, and collaboration with America's best and brightest individuals--individuals who have tirelessly dedicated themselves to study, work, and investments in bettering their knowledge, skill, commitment and dedication to their work, families, and our country. We can do better USA! We must do better, and while many are making huge sacrifices as this coronavirus spreads, perhaps we can do what we need to do to keep ourselves and others as safe as possible. Then we can move ahead with new leadership and a new start as the good and strong country that we have always been proud of. Onward.