@hawkeye10,
Quote:i want leaders to lead, but only after followers have consented to the mission.
Care to define "lead" in a way that is realistic enough for ANYONE do be a leader in our country? And while you are at it, care to define how to get followers to consent to being lead without first having a leader?
Quote:we are a split nation. in that case the FIRST mission for leaders is to get to a majority decision. the problem with current so called leaders of all stripes is that they have taken the nation being split as an excuse to not only wage war on their political opponents but to also lie to the people in the attempt to get what they want. this is not leadership, this is gangsterism.
In my opinion, they do not use it as an excuse. The fact is that the nation not only is split...it is split among people who think they can get their way and exclude others from getting theirs.
As for the "lies"...politicians have probably lied since caveman time. If you were a politician, you would probably lie. In fact, I doubt anybody could ever get elected to any political position in America without telling a whole bunch of lies. The citizens demand that politicians lie to them...they seem unwilling to hear the truth.
Quote:(abortion) this is decided...we want it possible to get but not easy to get, we dont want it to be a regular form of birth control, we want it to be an emergency remedy for when birth control fails.
Abortion, Hawkeye, is far from decided...and except that we elected the right guy this November, the abortion situation could have changed drastically as SCOTUS changes hands.
Quote:(gay marriage) they wait for a majority to form, on one side or the other
Sure, you want the leaders to lead by waiting for a majority to form????
Quote:(economic issues) a more difficult problem as people generally have no knowledge of economics, and the so called experts dont know enough to be experts (they are more correctly educated guessers) . they should however not be tools for the elite, and they should have some sense of the priorities of the people.
I suspect most have a better sense of the priorities of the people than most of us want to imagine, but implementing what the people want, as I was saying, is not always possible.
Get elected and do the job if you are so sure it can be done...otherwise, be a bit more understanding of the difficulties of the job.