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Great Article By Prof Barry Brownstein at AIER
1. Author: RayRDate: Mon, 2/28/2022, 12:48PM EST
Very insightful look into the mind of dicktators, and the question is, why is it that individuals are driven to gain and exercise destructive power in politics are far more common than in business?

Business Leaders Build Trust, Politicians Compel Compliance

Barry Brownstein
February 28, 2022

Quote:
P.J. O’Rourke, renowned for delivering insightful commentary with humor, recently passed away. In his book Parliament of Whores he delivered this zinger about authority:

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

During Covid, it is hard to argue with the idea that we have been “bullied by scum” who will stop at nothing to achieve more power.

The unvaccinated have had a bullseye on their backs as politicians whip up tribal us vs. them thinking. Their Prime Minister Mario Draghi would cast out unvaccinated Italians: “The unvaccinated are not part of our society.”

Canada’s despotic Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, had no worries about going over the top when he said this about the unvaccinated: “They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist. It’s a very small group of people, but that doesn’t shy away from the fact that they take up some space. This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice. Do we tolerate these people?”

In 2013, Trudeau expressed his envy of the Chinese Premier’s dictatorial powers. Trudeau imagined he would only use such force to implement a green utopia: “There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to go greenest fastest.”

Like his Canadian colleague, President Biden has worked overtime following the totalitarian playbook of dividing people with us vs. them demagogic rhetoric. Biden is certain the unvaccinated will be punished, if not by his mandates, then by his reading of “the science” tea leaves: “We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated.”

The French President Emmanuel Macron merely wants to “piss off” those who make different choices: “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so, we’re going to continue doing so, until the end. That’s the strategy.”

Can you imagine a business leader wanting to “piss off” his customers? Can you imagine business leaders pronouncing they won’t “tolerate” those who won’t buy their products? These questions are, of course, ridiculous.

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https://www.aier.org/article/business-leaders-build-trust-politicians-compel-compliance/
2. Author: SunoverbeachDate: Mon, 2/28/2022, 7:06PM EST
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
- GC
3. Author: tonygrazDate: Mon, 2/28/2022, 7:26PM EST
You should ask that Brown Stain guy.
4. Author: bgzDate: Mon, 2/28/2022, 10:19PM EST
RayR wrote:
Very insightful look into the mind of dicktators, and the question is, why is it that individuals are driven to gain and exercise destructive power in politics are far more common than in business?

Business Leaders Build Trust, Politicians Compel Compliance

Barry Brownstein
February 28, 2022



Nobody tried to take advantage and be more divisive than Trump... One thing I'll give him, at least he gives everyone cute little nicknames.
5. Author: tonygrazDate: Tue, 3/1/2022, 10:29PM EST
I used to give people nicknames in my early teens, but some people actually like the names they were given.
6. Author: SunoverbeachDate: Tue, 3/1/2022, 10:48PM EST
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn, and cross it deliberately
- GC
7. Author: bgzDate: Tue, 3/1/2022, 11:10PM EST
Sunoverbeach wrote:
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn, and cross it deliberately
- GC


Like calling peoples favorite politician Lying Ted... and then Lying Ted jumped on them Orange nuts.

And Ray posts an article claiming the left is behind the whole covert "us and them" thing, and Trump campaigned his way to victory by beating his chest telling them blatantly it's "us vs them".

This is Bizarro world, the deceptive politicians (talkin' all sides here, there's sh*t bags on all sides) and the weird humans that believe in them... the weird humans that believe all kinds of weird sh*t for that matter.

I guess there's a nerd joke going around saying we're the poor bassturds that got stuck on a low amplitude path and got stuck with our first Orange president!
8. Author: RayRDate: Wed, 3/2/2022, 12:59PM EST
Com'on Ben, give it up already, rid yourself of that TDS that consumes you. You can barely post without mentioning his name.Sad

The left produces the most coercive power-hungry dicktators. If they appear on the right it is because they have been infected with the virus of leftist thoughts.
The weird humans that believe in them also have a strange desire for power even though they are politically powerless, they reach for a strongman as a surrogate for their own lack of power, a demagogue that will promise them the power to smite their enemies, real or imagined and give them free stuff.


9. Author: SunoverbeachDate: Wed, 3/2/2022, 5:15PM EST
Everyone smiles in the same language
- GC
10. Author: bgzDate: Wed, 3/2/2022, 6:13PM EST
RayR wrote:
Com'on Ben, give it up already, rid yourself of that TDS that consumes you. You can barely post without mentioning his name.Sad

The left produces the most coercive power-hungry dicktators. If they appear on the right it is because they have been infected with the virus of leftist thoughts.
The weird humans that believe in them also have a strange desire for power even though they are politically powerless, they reach for a strongman as a surrogate for their own lack of power, a demagogue that will promise them the power to smite their enemies, real or imagined and give them free stuff.




You're wrong. Anyone can be a monster.
11. Author: Speyside2Date: Sun, 3/6/2022, 5:51PM EST
Good article Ray. Now if Biden could only reach up to those miserable standards, just saying,


Argh!
12. Author: SunoverbeachDate: Sun, 3/6/2022, 8:17PM EST
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's heart through his wallet.
- RW
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