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In reply to the discussion: We probably could have avoided the last 4 years with Donald Trump if... [View all]Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)Not having that as a requirement is what has opened the door to so much corruption and aided Citizens United to fester and ruin our democracy.
To me, CORRUPTION, domestic and international. Corruption of despotic leaders like Trump is what has the world teetering on the brink of total moral and physical destruction. We, America, should take the lead by example of rooting out the corruption that we can expose and require of leaders who are responsible for the lives and well-being of their countrymen and women. There should be an international law of decency maybe unwritten and unspoken, but universally agreed upon. We should refuse to do business with autocrats who set out to fulfill their own greed lusts for wealth and power instead of ruling by concern for the safety and health of their own people. Leaders can be wealthy without having to starve, kill, and maime their own people and deny them a means to reap a livelihood for themselves and their families. And they should be held accountable for their actions that threaten our mutual environment and natural resources like air and water.
CORRUPTION should become one of the important bywords of American leadership from now on. This notion of weeding out corruption should be on the table of nations and the UN. It ties into food insecurity, illness, poverty, war, and environment assault. Making that plain to the people of the nations ought to encourage them to overthrow greedy and discriminatory despots.
It's a dream...but "you gotta have a dream or how you gonna have a dream come true?"