Leading by his example, will it make America great again?

I can not get my head around the president-elect, no matter how hard I try. One could say he has an opposite view of what constitutes a good role model.  (A person who serves as an example of the values, attitudes, and behaviors associated with a role.) The key word is “role.” In his case, the role of the president of the United States is different from being at the top of the food chain in the business sector.  There is no question about his business expertise; the figures speak volume. In the business community, an individual’s career development, their empowerment, the rewards and recognition’s they may receive are their values system.  These are people that may well look over the attitudes, bad behavior and even absorb derogatory language from the owner, the boss, the top dog. Therefore, if these businesses exude these traits, they will attract highly motivated self-starters, leaving the role model  requirement as EZ and ample.  The bully mentality might work on Wall Street but does not necessarily cut grass on Main Street’s materialism,  the spiritualism, the mediocrity, or parochialism regarded as typical of small-town or inner city life. As an incoming president, you can not have insulted fifty percent of the electorate, a sitting president, presidential candidates,  journalist, the intelligence community, women and even the handicap just to name a few and believe it will not have a powerful influence on what people say, think and do at all levels of society. “What you say with your mouth shall come to pass” as president of the United States.   If he doesn’t  know this, then somebody needs to tell him.

Every individual, not just religious leaders, public officials,  sports and entertainment figures, teachers, community leaders, and especially parents, have a moral responsibility to call the president out in these troubled times.  A few years back, I realized my grandsons were getting older from the changes in their vocals and the subjects of their conversations.  In their adolescence we basically had fun being together.   But it had clearly become time for me to up my game.  I felt a need to do something out of the norm.  Repeating the age old lectures of “work hard and do good in school” was no longer a match against the diversions of the times. The presidential  debates soon proved my instincts.

Working against high odds, having no writing experience,   I wrote  “Guidance Against the Odds,” the first 39 years. Not as a guide, as the title may imply,  but as a show and tell mechanism to accomplish three goals;  first by demonstrating self-initiative.   Secondly, to impart pride through knowledge of family history to my grand children.  My third goal is to use my book as a mechanism to establish talking points, by building a following and a family of individuals willing to re-tweet factual information through the spirit of  “Guidance Against the Odds.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke