The Price of Credibility
Jonathan Turley wrote a nice opinion piece in the USAToday yesterday. It’s worth a few minutes of attention. Entitled The Land of $9 Million, it is about “how our fractured, money-soaked system can effectively eliminate most citizens” from running for public office. Turley focuses on the Minnesota Senatorial campaign, and how Nobel Prize winner Peter Agre, a Minnesota native, might not have a chance to compete because he does not have $9 million to be “credible.” It’s a debatable topic, aren’t they all, but I’m of the opinion that we’ve lost the soul of public service. We’re adrift in a dreary sea of cash, power and manufactured perception. It’s a system that fosters starch suits and plastic wisdom, not authenticity, integrity or humility; the three pillars of genuine leadership.
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