Listening selectively only to those who tell you want you want to hear... is always a choice that proves self limiting... no matter the venue in which you exercise that choice.
Where you see it... it's a definition of weakness... exactly parallel to that I discussed yesterday, in relation to "avoiding debate"... and losing the debate.
Ignoring doing what's right, to feed the ego by rewarding sycophants... also becomes a method of propagating a personal flaw into a systemic weakness, that inevitably results in the formerly robust systems rapidly mirroring the worst features in the myopia of the clueless leader.
Purges in the former Soviet Union... didn't make the Soviet Union more stable... rather than more fragile, while accelerating the pace of rotting at the core ?
Tolerance of diversity in ideas ( or, a big tent)... enables quality with diversity... as long as there is still a shared core in the commitment to shared ideals. Intolerance... begets and rewards stupidity while minimizing legitimacy and relevance... only more as the leader violates the core commitments and ideals of the group.
That's what we see happening. Obama doesn't even understand, much less share, the core commitments and ideals of the group... whether you're talking Flag rank military officers, or members of his own party (who appear shocked enough to be on the verge of mutiny... only, leaderless) much less the informed public. Republicans certainly have allowed Democrats far more rope than seems prudent... even as they do seem intent on hanging themselves, by purposefully destroying the economy, or the Constitution... or both. The first rule of politics is to not interfere with your opponents, while they're busy being stupid and doing stupid things to hurt themselves... and, I'd say that's perhaps the only measure by which you could claim that Republicans might have succeeded in anything in the last 5 years ? But, guys, letting them trample the Constitution... means YOU are letting it happen ?
When have incompetent leaders who are promoted well beyond the level of their competence, ever proven tolerant of the rightful criticism of their peers and superiors ? Obama, likely the least well prepared President we've ever elected, has grown in office, as all presidents must and will... but, the parallel in the unchecked growth in his intrinsic flaws, and their expression, means access to power has fueled a relative growth in his fundamental corruption at an vastly accelerated pace... that clearly has greatly outpaced the rate at which anything like wisdom is being generated. We're at the point in Obama's tenure (or, King Obama's reign?) where we should see evidence of growing maturity, and "getting a clue"... if not the emergence of a calming senior level statesmanship spanning the range of policy engagement. What we're seeing now instead, while it shares all of their worst features and more, looks less like Nixon and Kissinger, and more like Beavis and Butthead... only with all the violent video games being played in the White House, there also seems to be a growing risk that what we see is something more like a Bill Ayers brand of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
Someone close to them should have done something about them... while they were stockpiling ammo... and before they could start using it on their neighbors ? No one seems to believe that sort of problem could ever happen again... only in a White House whose occupant already claims to be "really good at killing people" ?
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It appears we're being deliberately set up for a re-play of the Civil War... only this time with the conflict driven by the moral failures of a corporate culture that opposes personal freedom and defends the imposition of economic slavery in an economy that is "managed" to benefit the wealthy aristocracy and plantation owners ? Ah. Well. Just like last time, then ?
Only, the parallel might be off, as it appears what Obama intends is to create his own brown shirt cadres, something that looks a lot more like the Gestapo... populated by hand picked political cadres who don't have to worry about meeting Civil Service hiring standards ?
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Obviously, if that is allowed to happen... there's going to be a war.
Obama thinks he can do whatever he wants ? Doesn't need to follow the law ?
My interpretation of the international reaction I see, now... seems mostly to consist of disbelief, first... with our former friends aghast, and now alienated, by how fast and how far off the rails America has gone, under Obama. Of course, that's assuming you can trust any of what they say... while they're pretending Europe isn't failing, and isn't doing the same things, even cooperating with Obama to enable him, while practicing the same subversive games intended to manipulate us, against their own people.
Our foes, only the stupid ones, are appearing ebullient, reckless, even, with the obviously great cluelessness apparent now in the State Department, under the "not so swift" Kerry / Butthead. The wiser ones are only looking more fearful... as weakness and stupidity causing failures where there is concentrated power is rarely proven a good thing, for anyone. They all appear to see that the wheels coming off is inevitable, and that what happens, then, is going to be ugly... perhaps unavoidably so... inherently predictable in occurrence, and inherently unpredictable in result. |
