Powerful world leaders have long been concentrating wealth, power and violence. They have thereby minimized trust, cooperation, honesty and mutual understanding - with destructive tragic consequences around the world.

We all need to discuss openly and honestly, which United States presidential candidates are now offering reliable leadership toward reversing the above patterns within God-Village-Earth.

We all need to support those United States presidential candidates who are offering such leadership toward reconciliations - in proportion to how reliably we trust them to continue to offer such reconciling leadership. We can thereby graciously expose those who are offering to continue the destructive patterns of the past decades.

originally published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan