Re: Fwd: Why some communities succeed . . .

[Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>]

> effective
>community leadership.  It is the single
>most important variable i
Thanks, Greg Brown, for this tidy piece of wisdom which most communities 
fail to practice. The electorate for the most part is not inspired to 
devote the time and energy needed for effective participation in 
grassroots social action, preferering to let those who have leadership 
aspirations gather the strands of power and influence for purposes that 
do not always address the broadest common good. People generally don't 
come up with criteria for making political choices that matter, even 
though all the governing bodies that control day-to-day living are 
responsible to the electorate. Just check the voting participation rates, 
and there's the evidence. Proactive groups try to fill the void, but it 
hardly ever works, unless a real crisis arises directly affecting most of 
the citizens. Ithink it was Jefferson who coined saying, "People get the 
government they deserve", and Washington, "government ... is force."

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William K. Medlin
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