Right now in the United States there are too many self-serving, backwards, bigoted leaders who cannot see what is most important for our future as a good people. Rather than taking a broad, positive lens that maximizes our collective potential for good living for all, these leaders promote backwards, narrow minded, me-first agendas that mostly protect their wealthy White cronies. This is dangerous and destructive for our country going forward. The only way that our country will be strong is if we prepare the landscape for what the future holds and that is a future of wonderful, life-enriching diversity, awesome global interdependence, and a need for environmental awareness that slows down climate change and updates the way we live so that we can rightly adapt to the environmental and climate change that does occur.
To lament these leaders over and over again will do not good, so what can we do to wake up our world to the need to positively embrace the future that is staring us in the face.
Learn
The more we know, the better we will be able to promote the best possible living and leadership. We can do this, but this demands that we educate ourselves and others about the positivity that is possible. We cannot stired mired in old, outdated, bigoted, closed minded think, but instead awaken our minds and actions to what is possible to better living today.
Speak out against bigoted, violent, deadly efforts and speak
Too many narrow minded, bigoted folk have a fatalist attitude towards progress. They are simply mired in outdated prejudices and me-first agendas with little to no regard for betterment. These backwards, and often violent, self-serving folk are a danger to good people the world over. We cannot let them get away with their hateful, hurtful, deadly agendas, agendas that prop up their pocketbooks and power with actions such as widening irresponsible gun use, increasing pollution, blocking opportunity, and withholding quality education and healthcare from many including the most vulnerable. These bigoted, backwards leaders only care about their own futures, but not the good potential for a bright future that our country holds. We have to speak up and against their selfish, outdated, hurtful agendas whenever possible.
Act
Find ways big and small to promote betterment. Commit to doing the good you can each and every day. Don't get discouraged, but instead commit to acts of goodness and strength to better your life and the lives of those around you.
We can create a better world for our lives today and into the future, but we can't let a few self-servers stand in our way. We can do better and we must.