Who Turns on the Water?

4/27/2018

"We tend to think of the United States government as a thing apart from other types of government. We are democratic, and they are nondemocratic.... Despotism could never happen here, we think, because we are a republic.... Dictators can be benevolent--the problem is there is little chance of reliably sustaining benevolent leadership without the kinds of public mechanisms to control the leader that are usually absent in a dictatorship. There can be despotic abuses of power in our system, just as in other systems, if we are complacent and let them happen. The fact that there is a fire engine parked at the corner will not keep your house from burning down if no one turns on the water."
Accountability Citizenship, by Stephen P Tryon, XLibris 2013, p. 77.

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5/4/2018 01:13:39 pm

The problem with our government is that they are one sided. They set and build projects for their own comfort without asking for people's approval. Aren't our leaders are called "leaders" so that they can serve their people. That's the confusing part for me. People don't know where to position themselves because we keep on expressing our desires for our own betterment, yet they always fail to give us that thing we need. That's just so unfair for me.

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5/19/2018 06:15:27 am

My son had been teaching me a lot about accountability lately. Funny how he reminded me about the day I caught him and his playmate watching a puppy almost drown in a tub. They were two years old and they had been pointing at each other when I asked who threw the puppy in the tub. About a year later, he finally had the courage to tell me it was him and not his friend. It has been a year! We really can learn a lot from kids. Grown ups should be able to do it too, you know, admit they are guilty.

Who Turns on the Water?

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