Pigs

My grandfather had a very strong sense of right and wrong, a code of honor, even in the last few years of his life, when dementia/Alzheimer’s was taking its evil grip. He accused a Target store cashier of stealing his lucky silver dollar when he realized it wasn’t in his pocket. Later, when he came to his senses and it was found, he demanded to be taken back to Target so he could apologize in person to the young woman.

He fought his mind disease like the warrior he was. Wrong things BOTHERED him! He couldn’t rest til he’d done the right thing. I remember him crying watching “Mississippi Burning.” And he loved watching Judge Joe Brown and Judge Judy on TV try to straighten folks out!

People like him are gone or dying off, and we’re being overran by selfish, immoral, cut-throat, hateful, ignoble assholes. They’re everywhere.

An amusing quote from Winston Churchill about his pet pig goes something like this: “Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig any day. He looks you square in the eye as his equal.” Leaders like Churchill made us laugh as they inspired us to be better than our nature dictated. He still inspires long after his death. What an impact one man made on humanity.

What do we get for leaders today? The Obamas – an all-new precedent for piggish behavior. Bill Clinton? A lying philanderer. Various legislators on both sides of the aisle who’ve lost all sense of morality as care takers of others’ money. Judges who jerk off on the bench.

What do we get for leaders for tomorrow? You tell me.