{"id":1750515,"date":"2022-11-24T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750515"},"modified":"2022-11-24T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T15:48:56","slug":"mark-lewis-washington-leaders-are-destroying-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-lewis-washington-leaders-are-destroying-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lewis: Washington \u201cLeaders\u201d Are Destroying America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-lewis-washington-leaders-are-destroying-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750515&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0a0ae5de-5962-4adf-bc85-b65277a3bb4a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Recently, I wrote an article about the kind of leaders America needs. \u00a0I suggested that we need leaders (1) who know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil; (2) who love the country and will protect and defend it; (3) who have moral virtue to whom others, especially youth, can look up to; (4) who have great character strength and the wisdom to know the difference between lasting truth and current fads, who will exalt the former and moderate the latter; (5) who are economically frugal and will not waste money on useless trivialities; (6) who are humble, recognizing they do not have all the answers, and thus constantly seek the guidance of a Higher Wisdom; (7) who can control their tongues and speak elevating words of prudence, verity, and excellence. \u00a0I stand by every one of those points.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And I see very little of any of that in American politics today. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But there is one further point that was recently brought to my attention about leadership. \u00a0A very poignant observation by a reader: \u00a0what happens after a \u201cleader\u201d has moved on?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This discerning individual used Florida and Ron DeSantis as an example. \u00a0Florida was purple for a long time, and has now, largely because of DeSantis and the kind of people he attracts to his state, become deep red. \u00a0But what will happen after DeSantis is gone? \u00a0What will his legacy be? \u00a0Will his influence outlast him? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What will his \u201cchildren\u201d be like?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This may have been part of Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s thought process regarding keeping DeSantis in Florida and not wanting him to run for the presidency in 2024. \u00a0He is an outstanding governor; we need Republican governors like him in every state. \u00a0If he moves out of Tallahassee and into Washington, what will happen to Florida? \u00a0That\u2019s the question my perceptive reader was concerned about. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Do we lose Florida if we gain Washington?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In this case, the whole is more important than one part, but it would still be a tragic loss, if Florida were to slip back into the hands of Democrats. \u00a0We may never get Washington again if that happens.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So, the question is, what kind of leader is Ron DeSantis? \u00a0Really? \u00a0Will his legacy in Florida be years of Republican rule? \u00a0Or is it fly-by-night and fleeting?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Yet, there is something of far greater gravity than this. \u00a0We must NOT succumb to the error of believing that politicians are our first, or best, leaders. \u00a0The Democratic Party believes Washington and political power is everything. \u00a0That is their cardinal mistake and why they are causing so much damage to the nation. \u00a0Their every action is based upon that principle. \u00a0It is imperative we not fall into that trap.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Leadership begins at home, in the family, the supreme institution in any civilized society. \u00a0The true measure of successful parenthood is what their children are like, especially after they leave home. \u00a0Parents, contrary to what Democrats believe, are the most important \u201cleaders\u201d in any nation. \u00a0They raise and civilize\u2014or don\u2019t\u2014the next generation of citizens, and if they do it poorly, then it really won\u2019t matter who the governor or president is. \u00a0If you have rotten people, you are going to have a rotten country and a rotten government. \u00a0And every bit of that starts with the family, not in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What the Democratic Party has done to the American family is, by far, the greatest crime in the history of our country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Children who have been taught well by their parents will make strong, law-abiding, hard-working, patriotic citizens. \u00a0Parents who fail\u2026well, Washington, or Tallahassee, can\u2019t do much with poorly raised human debris.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The tragedy of tragedies is when a nation has \u201cleaders\u201d like Joe Biden, who from their lofty posts, do everything they can to undermine what good parents are trying to accomplish. \u00a0Who reward vice and punish virtue. \u00a0Who exalt hedonism and perversity, and attack honor, purity, and uprightness. \u00a0Who subsidize lies and sloth, instead of demanding decency, good character, and honesty. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden knows absolutely nothing about noble leadership. \u00a0Whoever \u201ctaught\u201d him was an utter, complete failure.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The best civic leaders support parents in their attempts to bring up worthy children, to raise them to greater heights, and point them to virtuous selflessness, to excellence, not ego. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Is that what Joe Bide is doing? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The best leaders don\u2019t teach people that human life is valueless, that adultery and dishonesty are equal to purity and trust, and that children can be destroyed for sexual pleasure at the whim of human waste, of deviant, self-absorbed degenerate sewer-dwellers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What is Joe Biden doing? \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The best leaders don\u2019t lie repeatedly and build their policies on falsehoods, just for political gain. \u00a0That isn\u2019t a lesson a country should be teaching its youth. \u00a0Parents don\u2019t want their children learning that.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is difficult enough for parents to raise honorable offspring. \u00a0And it becomes exponentially more difficult when the leadership in government exemplifies the exact opposite of everything good parents want their children to learn, and a civilized society NEEDS them to learn.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">How did the Democratic Party sink to such depths of utter, monstrous depravity?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What will Joe Biden\u2019s legacy be?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What will Ron DeSantis\u2019s legacy be in Florida?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RDS can\u2019t do it all by himself. \u00a0Nobody can. \u00a0But he can set the proper example. \u00a0He can give unwavering support to true leaders, in families, who are attempting to educate their children towards excellence and virtue. \u00a0He can train government officials below him so that, when he is gone, those leaders who follows him will know how to lift society to excellence, purity, and honor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I think RDS gets it. \u00a0He better. \u00a0Republicans everywhere have to. \u00a0Because the Democratic Party certainly shows absolutely no signs of elevating itself out of the slime pit it is in and to human decency and nobility. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Christmas is coming! Thanksgiving and cold weather, too. Get some good reading material to tide you over. \u00a0My western novels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1636486533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitewater<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/9994983245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River Bend<\/a>, are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Eliva.com. \u00a0A third western, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Allies-Dilemma-Mark-Lewis-ebook\/dp\/B00BI364GC\/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2R6B147DQV953&#038;keywords=allie%27s+dilemma&#038;qid=1668838816&#038;sprefix=allie%27s+dilemma%2Caps%2C427&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allie\u2019s Dilemma<\/a>, is available for Kindle only. \u00a0 And read some different posts on my blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/thailandlewis.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thailandlewis.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I wrote an article about the kind of leaders America needs. \u00a0I suggested that we need leaders (1) who know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}