10-17-2020, 01:22 AM
(10-16-2020, 11:04 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I would say that these traits would be unwelcome to anyone who must endure them as a client, constituent, subordinate, or any partner who has no choice:
The characteristic destructive behaviors of toxic leaders include (as I summarize them):
Quote:Leaving their followers (and frequently non-followers) worse off than they found them -- compromising them legally and morally, abusing them financially and sexually, destroying old family bonds and associations, and ruining their self-esteem
Violating the basic standards of human rights of their supporters as well as of non-supporters.
Grossly misrepresenting the competence and benign intentions of the Leader to the extent that followers see no alternatives to the Personality Cult
Playing to the basest fears and needs of people without solving them
Stifling any constructive criticism of the Leader and his methods and judgment of the results
Pervasive deceit
Subversion of traditional controls upon pathological leadership (legal process, education, the media) to get away with unethical, illegal, and criminal acts
Establishment of a dynastic or totalitarian succession at the expense of free elections in politics and institutional merit in businesses and government bureaucracies
Failure to nurture others (except cronies and family members) while inappropriately clinging to power
Pitting constituents against each other
Treating followers well, but encouraging them to hate and destroy others
Creating pariahs for abuse
Making the few who do well in the system dependent upon the survival of the power of the leader
Neglect or sponsorship of incompetence, cronyism, and corruption
Any question? Any high-profile figure that we all know?
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Biden?