Reply #12: It's time for us to finance those who will speak Truth to Power, whether they will win or not.

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We're listening tooooooooooooooo much to the professionals who pay their mortgages by dealing in political properties of various stripes with the highest priority ALWAYS placed on whether they can "win" or not. That priority subverts E - V - E - R - Y - T - H - I - N - G else and some of the stuff that winning subverts, and has even actually killed, is the Voice of the People.

Because of this, the People are now confused and do not even recognize their own Voice anymore. We need leaders who are so thoroughly immersed in REAL dialogue (not pre-packaged, engineered to customer spec dialogue), leaders who are so intimately immersed in Real dialogue with Real People that s/he does, In Fact, manifest all of our dimensions in who and what s/he is, in what s/he says and does. Our confusion, the result of our loss of Voice, makes this task exponentially more difficult.

Our problem right now is to find such people and to get enough ordinary people to invest in their **long-term** development.