It is much observed in the Wealthy West
that leaders lie about having humble origins,
with a consistency that beggars belief.
They have to, to have anything to say
about where they have come from
because the whole media apparatus
disguises the expectation of wealth,
where the wealthy assume their birth right
is (amongst other things) to talk down to the masses.
From birth onwards, this benefits the best heeled
to become ever more efficient bullies.
Even the blind can see that if their leader
came from origins even half as humble
as the (Dear, Great, Supreme... ) leader
said they were, then the leader could not speak
with such polish and charm about where they came from.
The true leader has grit, regardless of wealth,
and grit means the leader being honest with themselves
about the riches they grow up with.
My preferred leader would Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan,
a school boy from the mining valleys of Wales
who conquered his stammer with his loquacity,
and his knowledge of language as an adult.
The wealth he found in words,
was greater than the inherited wealth
of his rivals combined, it founded the NHS,
an economic miracle in it's time and with it's founding
that seventy six years on is like a crumbling stately home,
soon be set for the wrecking ball
of American Capitalist wrack and ruin.
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