On Leadership Redux

Thoughts.

Anyone with experience with corporate politics in the business world, or with departmental/institutional politics in the academic world, understands certain power realities that can inform a better understanding of, on a larger scale, how America (or any other nation) really works, and, how, on a smaller scale, Der Movement really operates.

In reality, in most cases, laws, regulations, documents, principles, ideologies count for little.  Personalities, and the struggles of these personalities, are paramount. What is most important are the aggressive psychopaths with dark triad traits who strive for power and prestige (and money); individuals who use entities for their personal aggrandizement, who use networking, lies, force, deception, amoral and immoral actions of all sorts to achieve their goals. Now, these individuals may have beliefs, and they may actually believe in these beliefs, but in most cases that is secondary to, again, power and prestige, and the struggles between individual personalities for such.

If an entity is lucky, the dark triad leaders will choose competent and moral people to actualize some good for the entity (if for no other reason than to help the leaders maintain power); in rare cases, leaders themselves are competent and moral and are not the psychopaths so described.  America’s founding fathers were such competent and moral leaders. More often, leaders feel threatened by subordinates who are too competent, particularly when they are moral; so you often get corrupt subordinates actualizing evil, who turn out to be convenient scapegoats to assuage popular anger – sacrificed by the leaders to win popular favor (see The Prince for more on that).

While the ethnic affirmative action program of Der Movement certainly distorts some of this (as such policies do with other entities), and helps prop up people inept even in their personal leadership, in general some of the harm done by “movement” “leaders” derives from the mechanisms described above.  Even if there was no quota system, there will always be a struggle between psychopaths and moralpaths with the former typically, but not always, coming out on top.

And those on the side of the right cannot depend on “laws, regulations, documents, principles, ideologies” to help them in this struggle.