Individual citizens, not tyrants and powerful leaders, will determine whether a country survives or not. A country can only survive and thrive when the focus is on the Rights of the People – Not the Government. For too long this Government has bought and sold allegiance from people who take and do not give – and then when the ruling elite began to lose power – they flooded the country with cheap labor or votes – lying that they’re doing it out of compassion – when they’re doing it to simply retain power and control the masses. John Steinbeck – the great writer may have said it best in his biographical movie about the leader of the Mexican revolution of 1910 to 1920 – Emiliano Zapata. Steinbeck understood that no country survives for long under corrupt tyrants. His screenplay Viva Zapata – sums it up:
This land is yours. But you must protect it. It won’t be yours long if you don’t protect it. If necessary, with your lives, and your children with their lives. Don’t discount your enemies. They will be back. And if your house is burned, build it again. If your corn is destroyed, replant. If your children die, bear more. If they drive you out of the valley, live on the mountain, but live. You always look for leaders, strong men without faults. There aren’t any. There are only men like yourselves. They change. They desert. They die. There are no leaders but yourselves. A strong people is the only lasting strength.