Western Courier

I think it would be better said that some Americans are too selfish, while others are too dimwitted to care. But then again, I also think that you are wrongly assuming that we still vote for leaders; it's quite apparent that leadership is lacking in our government institutions, from local municipalities all the way up to our federal government. We vote for *rulers,* and the people are all to willing to be ruled over rather than led. True LEADERS actually LEAD people, generally by example, while RULERS simply dictate and prescribe punishment for noncompliance with those dictations. The latter seems to be the direction that our government is taking, and unless the voters wise up and reestablish some sort of respect for what this country once stood for, and what we once expected from LEADERS in this nation, we're going to further continue our downhill slide into the mud of pathetic leadership and unrelenting dictators.