If you have a leader whose followers believe they must do truly horrible things in order to please that leader, you know it’s a hopeless situation. Each and every time you read about Trump’s followers, it’s never about them offering support to the homeless or work to the jobless. It’s always about doing awful stuff to others, as if that automatically leads to good results for those they say they wish to help.
This morning I read the CNN article about Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert saying she demands Joe Biden get himself on a camera before 5pm to prove he is still alive. Essentially suggesting that Biden was incapacitated and someone else issued his letter withdrawing from the presidential election. The sheer indecency of saying the supposed most powerful individual on earth “get himself to a camera” to prove himself to some silly congresswoman is just laughable really.
But when you go back in time and you read of situations such as the Nazi execution of Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and 8 others who tried to remove Hitler, you begin to see just how despicable human beings are. They slowly suffocated him and resuscitated him several times to strangle him over and over again, recording every second of it, apparently so that Hitler can watch the tape. Now, the issue is not whether or not Hitler asked for the recording or watched it, the issue is that, if you are the type of leader whom your followers believe would enjoy watching such a tape, then you have led by such example.
In today’s society, it is not about an individual in leadership, it is more about what the followers do in their attempts to please that leader. It is also the reason why Biden’s ages and frailties was not and should not have been a reason to shove him aside. He has already set out the type of leader he is and his key followers would have led with decency.
A leader whose followers believe – unruliness, use of demeaning language, enactment of horrible policies aimed at mass deportations, separation of children from parents at the border etc., – is the way to gain favour from that leader, paints a grim, hopeless situation for the country. Americans must stand up to say no to that.
It is a most unfortunate situation the Democratic Party has allowed George Clooney & Co, to walk them into. Kamala Harris is ok and will try her darndest, but the numbers are not stacking up. We will have to hope for a miracle and that she surprises us all by beating Trump in November
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