Big Think Post: A Lack of Innovative Leadership

http://bigthink.com/videos/a-drought-of-leadership

This is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

There's no better way to sum up the world's leadership. It's pathetic, really, when you reflect on past politicians. Less than a century ago, FDR, possibly the greatest president the US has ever known, lead our nation through an economic crisis and the most horrible conflict the world has yet seen. Winston Churchill, his contemporary, kept the British people fighting even when all their hopes seemed lost. Even men as evil as Stalin and Hitler...they got things done, and not all of it was evil. Hitler brought Germany back from the dead, and Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a superpower that dominated world affairs for half a century. History has known many great (or at least effective) leaders who rose in the face of adversity, including Abraham Lincoln, several English monarchs, Saladin of the Ayyubid dynasty, Charlemagne and his grandfather Charles the Hammer, Alfred the Great, Arminius, Julius Caesar...the list goes on and on. And yet we don't have any great leaders today. President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are ineffective, facing legislative bodies that oppose them and allowing weaker foreign governments to push them around. Even our ambivalent enemy China is facing some dissent in light of democratic sympathizers. Ironically, the only modern leader I would consider powerful is Vladimir Putin of Russia, and we all know fully well what he's using his power to do: persecute gays and imprison his political rivals. Hopefully, we'll soon have leaders who know how to effectively use their power for a better future for the good of all. Because the alternative isn't a bright one.