10-24-2018, 12:57 PM
(10-24-2018, 11:11 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Trump is amoral, pecuniary and uncultured: three negative attributes of a Reactive leader. He seems to have some Millennial (!) traits too, as his leadership style pretends to be grand and focuses on building (e.g. the wall on the US-Mexico border).
A bad boomer would be a fanatic, someone like Osama.
Contrast Obama -- he has had the cleanest Administration in a long time. He doesn't seem to be grasping for money. Culture? He is secretive about that. I don't even know what music he listens to or his preference in painting.
With Trump -- delusions of grandeur are the norm among despotic leaders. You ought to see the dwellings of such tyrants as Saddam Hussein and Nicolae Ceausescu. Trump taste is little better. Let's put it this way: 10 Downing Street, long-time residence of the Prime Minister of the UK is middle-class by contrast even if someone so powerful as Sir Winston occupied it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.