The cancer infecting the political Left

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(12-14-2020, 04:21 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

• Leaving their followers (and frequently nonfollowers) worse off than they found them.
  
• Violating basic standards of human rights of their own supporters, as well as those of others that they do not count among their followers.
  
• Feeding their followers illusions of the Leader's power while destroying the independence of followers, enhancing the dependency of followers.
  
• Playing to the basest fears and needs of their followers.
  
• Stifling constructive criticism so that one can demand and expect unqualified and uncritical obedience.
  
• Misleading followers through deliberate untruths and faulty diagnoses of problems
  
• Subverting the structures and processes of the system to generate truth, justice, and excellence to make unethical, illegal, and criminal acts possible.
  
• Building a totalitarian hierarchy that subverts normal standards of succession and making advancement through the ranks practically impossible for all but cronies and sycophants.
  
• Failing to nurture other leaders, or clinging inappropriately to power.   
  
• Maliciously setting constituents against each other.
  
• Treating followers well, but persuading them to hate and destroy others.
  
• Identifying scapegoats and inciting others to castigate them.
  
• Ensuring the that the cost of taking down the Leader is the destruction of an organization upon which subordinates need.
  
• Ignoring or promoting incompetence, cronyism, and corruption. 
  

I'm amazed that you are unable to see how much of this directly relates to the Democratic party and the amount of power and influence that it has over its voters these days. How many Democrats vote Democrat no matter what these days? How Democrats directly associate the Democrats with their lively hoods? How many voters feel reliant upon it one way or another? How many voters feel obligated to it one way or another? How many voters feel they'd have nothing or would be nothing without it? What do they represent as a percentage of the electorate? Is it still a solid 45% of the electorate these days? I haven't figured out if you're a true believer in the cause ( a member of the social justice crowd/blue personality cult) or just a clueless and needy Democratic pawn/peasant these days. The day is coming when the Democrats find themselves without most of the country to govern or rule as we see it. A national split is coming dude. As blue America implodes red America will be growing, benefiting and prospering. You'll feel lucky that you're stuck living out in the boondocks. Eric says there's a major lack of potential leaders in the Democratic pipeline.