LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Resetting our compass

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To the editor:

Defining our health care problems and solutions is an important exercise in democracy. It will likely set the tone for our future goals and values of our great country. It addresses the nature of leadership into the 21st century while building on our past history, government and politics.

Communication and influence flows between leaders and constituents. It addresses human needs. To an unheroic side of leadership, to leadership in the 21st century. True policymakers can be found at top and bottom of the system. The people have needs from physiological to safety needs to needs for self-esteem and self-actualization.

For leaders and constituents in a challenging political climate, we must respect those we want to silence, and manage emotions as well as rational thinking. We need to create opportunities from dissonance. We need a vision for a positive future with rituals, morals, ethics and values.

A morally based leadership is a form of stewardship. It taps what is important to people and what motivates them. The stakes are elevated when the problems are transformed from technical to something moral. Creative ideas and ideals innovation and imagination would help as well.

I, for one, will place myself in service of a nationalistic view of our government at this time in our history. I will speak out for the rights of all Americans. Let us create an atmosphere of acceptance and stewardship, and set our moral compass in a good direction.

Health care is a good place to start.

Karen Green

Karen Green

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