THE BLAME GAME

You hear it often these days that America's greatest problem is the quality of its political leaders.  I don't think that is the case.

Our leaders (if they can properly be called that) do stand in the way of our country's greatness.  The dishonesty they manifest in hundreds of ways do pose problems for us.  But our greatest problem lies not with them, but with us..the public...and our seeming lack of interest in studying and learning about, and becoming smarter about, political and moral issues.

Not one word can be heard in our public elementary or high schools about these two important aspects of our lives.  Students are left to study these two subjects on their own...which, I suspect virtually none do...and, as a consequence, most adopt their moral and political beliefs by the seat of their pants, if at all.  Virtually always when I seek to speak with adults about their moral and political beliefs, their not uncommon response is "I'm not particularly interested, can we talk about something else?"

The consequence of the lack of formal education is to give politicos free, unfettered, reign in the political field to do as they wish, and to place the resolution of morality issues in the fragile hands of whim and personal fancy.  

And the consequence of that is America's current state of health.

So who bears the blame?  We all do, for sitting by and letting the status remain the quo.