TRUE GRIT

It is always ever only the courageous few who stand against the mainstream and who get things done. The entire world is impacted when one or more of these courageous individuals leads a significant nation.

The current illusion is that when 'we' (the collective) stand together as one, this and that happens; the real truth however is that the collective often ignore the bad things because:
a) it is politically correct to not make waves or,
b) it all depends on what 'side/tribe' you're on.

I am becoming very disturbed by the current vogue amongst 'conservatives' to follow the socialists opinions (the busy re-writing of history) of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Such 'perspectives' are tainted by Hollywood's ideological machine and could not be more erroneous:

"Here, from his Brandenburg Gate citizen-of-the-world speech in 2008, is Obama's characterization of what happened a quarter-century ago:
People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.
No, sorry. History proved no such thing. That's comforting pap, but it's not what happened. In the Cold War, the world did not "stand as one". One half of Europe was a prison, and in the other half far too many people - the Barack Obamas of the day - were happy to go along with that division in perpetuity. And the wall came down not because "the world stood as one" but because a few people stood against the pap-peddlers. The truly courageous ones were the fellows like Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel and a thousand lesser names, who had to stand against evil men who would have murdered them if they'd been able to get away with it. That they were no longer confident they could get away with it was because a small number of western leaders had shovelled détente into the garbage can of history and decided to tell the truth. Had Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and John Paul II been like Helmut Schmidt and Francois Mitterand and Pierre Trudeau and Jimmy Carter, the Soviet empire would have survived and the wall would still be standing."