Attention U.S. Presidential candidates:

This is what real courage looks like.

100 monks head back to the streets in Myanmar

Now that is the heart and essence of democracy.

Democratic and Presidential candidates, Ms. Clinton, in particular, take notice:

This is the quality we call courage. It means taking responsibility whether it is popular or not and doing it despite the consequences. It is rare. All too rare in this Presidential election. And it involves doing it out of your own free will whether people force you to do it or not.

This is the lead you need to follow.

And if you can't figure that out, you're not worthy of that office.

So get worthy.

Love,
Ben

P.S. I say that knowing that I need to get worthy, too. I have a long way to go. Most people do, I think. And most public servants - politicians and teachers and cops and military personnel and judges and all sorts of people serving and leading us - especially. Because, like it or not, we look to them for leadership. And so leadership, not confusing our basest impulses with our most worthy, is what we need them to provide.

I'll keep doing my best. They'll keep doing theirs', I assume. But the bottom line is that we all need to do better.