How often do we learn something awful, clam up, and ignore it, hoping it will go away. It never does, it just gets worse and our silence becomes its enabler.
Life is like that, we don't want to get involved. We have enough to worry about and ignorance, after all, is bliss. Wrong, ignorance is acceptance.
The easy analogy is governance. We sit in a management meeting or a board of directors where we become aware of something nefarious and keep silent for fear of being disloyal.
To speak up takes courage and courage has consequences.
When a whistleblower comes forward they are vilified, they become the victim of power and power corrupts.
We've seen this in Washington for years, management teams being selected for their weakness rather than their strength. Weakness breeds indecision and silence, strength breeds courage.
A new administration always starts with a ray of hope that the management team, aka the cabinet, will be outspoken and advise and consent with courage, not silence, and that we'll have a President that appreciates the difference.
We just ended a reign of political terror with advisors willing to take a stand being fired and replaced with an obsequious team of sycophants.
America deserves better and has her chance every four years to make a difference, pray this is our moment.
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