Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
September 16, 2012 3 Comments
So asks Charles Coulombe:
… When I was a boy, the world was filled with leaders—reigning or recently retired—who epitomized their countries. De Gaulle, Churchill, Adenauer, De Gasperi, Chiang Kai-shek, Franco, Salazar, De Valera, Pinochet, Sato, Perón, Menzies, Diefenbaker, and even the UN’s Hammarskjöld. Whether in office through the ballot box or a coup, these lads guided their lands through perilous times. In my time, the closest we came on a national level was Ronald Reagan, a giant among the pygmies of late-20th-century presidents. All these leaders were able and memorable.
There are several reasons why neither ballot boxes nor military coups create such folk today…
Do take the time to read the whole piece here.
About Fr Stephen Smuts
I think I like Mr. Charles Coulombe.
Monarchy and Aristocracy > Mob Rule.
The great loss today, of course, is both cultural and spiritual, and simply the great loss of the Judeo-Christian, both the moral ethic and the depth of that biblically and theologically! WE in the so-called Free World, have been in this moral/spiritual slide for many, many years now, but then I was born in 1949, the son of an Irish Brit WW II Vet. & father, and great uncles, aunts, that all were involved! And they are all before the Throne now! My greats & hero’s were my family! I wonder how many can say that today, about their people?
Where have all the leaders gone? Anarchists discredited them, everyone.
When will people ever learn?