So let's be honest: leadership lacking

I have written several times in recent years concerning the loss of civility in our current culture. The examples are endless and, unfortunately, seem to be growing abundantly with each passing day.

Lack of both respect and personal responsibility are two glaring signs that civility has been pushed to the floor.

But it's the sad decline in honesty that, I believe, most threatens our future.

You've heard by now this week's famous revelation by an Obamacare architect that the administration lied to the American public concerning the overhaul of our health care system.

Yet, for the most part, the national media glossed over this bombshell as if honesty is not an essential ingredient for the feds.

Where oh where is the outrage? When we learn firsthand that our elected leaders lied to us on something as important in our health care, where are the protests, the indictments and the mandatory jail time?

But some of our declining honesty can be chalked up to political correctness. History will someday likely point to this obsession with political correctness as the genesis for our cultural decline.

In other words, if we cannot be honest for fear of some backlash over political correctness, then we take a giant step backward on a path that cannot be easily reversed.

Case in point.

A new report by Business Insider this week named the most dangerous cities in the world. The good news is that no United States city cracked the top 20 most dangerous cities in the world. The bad news - at least for our little corner of the world - is that St. Louis was named the 45th most dangerous.

And this list predates Ferguson, which is another story all together.

Most of those high on this list are in South and Central America with Mexico well represented.

But Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and St. Louis all cracked the top 50.

Here's where that honesty needs to kick in.

All of cities have large minority populations, all are controlled by Democratic party officials, all have large union representation and all have active and violent gang activities.

These cities also share substantial concentrations of low income residents and largely because of the violent nature, all have lost population and businesses greater than other areas.

And all continue blindly to elect the same political class to dominate over this growing decline.

We need to be honest and recognize that this liberal, Democratic leadership are doing absolutely nothing to improve their communities other than begging for more federal funds to give the impression they are truly concerned about their residents.

We need to be honest and recognize that failed leadership is the root cause of these urban issues.

But the national media wants us to think that anything other than failed liberal leadership is the real reason for this violence.

We should take no pride whatsoever that one of the more dangerous cities in the world is our "go to" large city.

But for all of the excuses, it all boils down to failed leadership.