> For a leader, you want a strong vision for the future, passion, a very strong will, charisma.
Europe was plagued with many of this style of "leader" between the 1920's and 1940's and tens of millions of people died for it.
Europe was plagued with many of this style of "leader" between the 1920's and 1940's and tens of millions of people died for it.
They will suggest policies like: what if instead of feeding the hungry we define a specific income bracket adjusted dynamically to the purchasing power parity of... and in the first three words you've already lost 99% of the population who thinks it's unnecessarily complicated because it is: they're turning a moral issue into a technical one because they've been trained to do technical analysis and to not see things in moral terms, rather, to shift numbers around in spreadsheets. They are wholly incapable of stepping back and recognizing that the spreadsheet itself is wrong, not technically wrong, but morally wrong: that simpler is better, that universal programs (like roads, NHS) are better than means-tested ones, that these things which are simple moral imperatives should be able to be explained simply.