Leadership is a difficult thing. No matter how good a person is at serving others, leading by example, doing the right thing even when others think it is wrong, having good character, being a good decisionmaker, and so on, leadership has its price. The bigger the leader’s responsibilities, the bigger the price.

I’ve led a range of organizations and companies in my lifetime. From 4-H Clubs to sports teams to political campaigns to small and large companies to ministries; and all along the way, there were enemies and detractors, no matter how good a job I did. There is always “that person” who finds offense and makes a big deal about it.

The current leadership parallels between America and Israel are interesting.

In America, we are bombarded every day with impeachment news. The news media and politicians who oppose the President have been trying to remove him from office even before his transition team began its work in late 2016. Government progress has been obstructed at every turn. There is nothing more important to the opposition than the removal of America’s elected leader. Everything he does is wrong as measured in their eyes. They use every opportunity to justify skewering him based on their own brand of logic and justice. This US President has been under attack from his enemies from day one. And there are no signs that it will let up.

Halfway across the world is another leader, the Prime Minister of Israel. He has been a good leader, a strong leader. But the very same spirit working here in America also is trying to take him out.

Think back to the previous US president and all the efforts to defeat the Prime Minister of Israel that were even illegally funded with US dollars because the previous US president didn’t want to deal with the Prime Minister’s hardline policies against Islamic terrorists. Well, now the opposition in Israel has finally got their indictment against the Prime Minister—bribery, breach of trust, and fraud. All vehemently denied by the Prime Minister who says this is no less than a witch hunt. Others say it is a coup attempt.

See the parallel?

Both leaders have different styles. Both have been successful in their lives. Both are serving the public. Both are not perfect. Yet their opposition paints them as the worst people on earth, that their every breath does harm to someone.

It is amazing how the people clamor for better leadership, yet refuse to recognize good leadership when they see it.

There is always the complainer. Good becomes evil and evil becomes good.

The verses about leadership in the Bible require righteousness, skill, wisdom, fairness and justice.

Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.”

Some people mourn if they don’t get their own selfish way—and many of them wail the loudest. Herein is the price of leadership.

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Lurking in the dark shadows of the next presidential election are a host of Democratic Party candidates who are of the Marxist brand. They seem to be publicly trying to out-socialist the other—something that concerns the immediate past president. The former president warned the stable of socialist candidates at a fundraiser of leftist donors that they cannot force the agenda too publicly and expect to win. He said that the universe of voters “are not driven by the same views reflected on certain left-leaning Twitter feeds or the activist wing of our party.”

Translated: “If you are going to advance the Marxist agenda, you need to be sneaky about it like I was.”

Think about the condition of this country today.

The New York Times reported that the former president told the leftists: “I don’t think we should be deluded into thinking that the resistance to certain approaches to things is simply because voters haven’t heard a bold enough proposal and if they hear something as bold as possible then immediately that’s going to activate them.”

In other words, you have to sell this socialist agenda in small bits and pieces, using words that can be interpreted positively by both liberals and moderates, while the Marxists know full well what is meant. By the same token, you need to lose words that tend to promote the socialist revolution against the Constitutional Republic. Use words like tax reform instead of raising taxes, for example.

The former president was a master at telling Americans exactly what he was going to do by using words that made them think it was a good thing.

Arab Spring, for example, was a movement of democracy rather than an overthrow of stable Middle Eastern governments by his terrorist organization of choice, Muslim Brotherhood.

“If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor” instead of “mandated socialist healthcare” where the government will determine what, if any care, you receive, and force you pay twice as much for the privilege.

Speaking out against “non-traditional” marriage was labeled hate speech to justify preventing people from exercising their religious freedom by quoting scripture from the Holy Bible about marriage and homosexuality.

Get the picture? Sneaky Marxism.

Moreover, he, Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Eric Holder populated the deep state, the State Department and the Department of Justice with like-minded, Marxist-leaning minions that are at the very center of today’s ongoing coup against this country.

The Communist Manifesto says, “But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis.”

Exodus 20:3 says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

When government replaces God, bad things happen.

The former president knows that Americans are not yet ready to accept Marxism, so sneaky Marxism—like he did it—is his winning recipe and good advice to his fellow Democrats.

America needs to wake up, especially the “Church.”

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