Friday; March 26
Periodically I like to quote people in my articles, but I often find myself quoting voices from history. I know who I like to listen to – and those people I trust – but so many of them are dead and gone. These days, if I quote a popular person, I am apt to make one group happy and another faction irate. So, I thought I would do a search of the most “trusted people in American” and guess what I found? In the early 1970s it was CBS news correspondent Walter Cronkite and in 2013 it was actor Tom Hanks … then it went dry! I struggled to find a recent poll about who people trust today and there just wasn’t much out there. Folks, this isn’t because there aren’t people talking – everyone is sharing opinions – could it be that we just can’t find the person whose wisdom bridges gaps and transcends factions? Not only did I find the silence on a reliable voice in our society interesting, I found it disturbing. Is it because we can’t agree on who to believe or is it because of the lack of