Acting tough

 

November 3rd 2020
If you don't trust the claims of the consistently tough but loving God found in the great collection , you will find it very tough to  find someone you can trust . The earth bound ones, in our democracy  

ACT as if they know what they are doing. It is true  as Professor  John Passmore said   in his wonderful Boyer lecturers on the the Limits of Government . Leaders find it almost impossible to tell the public that they don't really know exactly what to do
.It will help you to understand the applicants  even if this information doesn't help them. It will also help you to chose a leader who doesn't pretend to know too much   even if his heart and his latest achievements are on his sleeve ,he knows from experience to listen in order to get
consensus and results.
It will help you to see the real possibilities by studying not what they talk about doing but How they have done things and exactly HOW they will change the world. How much acting,  how much play acting and how much doing ?  
In hard economic times  or "when the people want only what they want"  only actors may apply for the job    

 Is this such a time ? Y/N 

 

RATE your favourite leader .  Capital =majors on ; small =minors on   Issue ( currently the Giant issues are COVID , global warming . incineration,  border control , deaths ,.............
Acting tough 

Being tough 

Conjob   The worst  leaders ACT  up to our own and their  fantasies about ability to achieve the impossible - by aiming at the near impossible  The only politics we can use is practical . 
Disaster management. Often  no greater and easier way to win the vote than to stop or slow a disaster ( real imagined or just plain overblown . Simples- ask the press for help here ) 

 

Cases include border disputes, domestic violence , drownings, disease, deaths , invasions , enemy attacks ,racial tensions  atmospheric or environmental threats . 

Evidence base ; Big number facts and tight framing on screen and in one column ( cf full picture facts) feature. 

Economic management  Warning this actor may not even be allowed to appear on stage The Best leaders ( not that we may have many)  as Passmore points out  with King Arthur, talk to us about difficult things like economic management . The trouble is they may not get elected.

 

 False hope  A  very poor leader is one who acts to please the people - who gives them what they want . Good news or" we are doing ok news ", .When the people are desperate for hope, such  offer solutions that target hope alone. If that hope be heavenly, it takes our minds from the real world politics that doesn't work?  

God assumption This person might not say they are God, but they ACT like they are. The  situation occasionally arises in history when such a person , who may not have been trained his mind this way,   will use various bits of the above to make him/her appear that way.   Idolatry is common enough .  

The current contenders  and some suggestions  for consideration 
Premier  Daniel Andrews ( VIC)                            A G  D
Premier Palaszczuk ( QLD)                                     A  G D 
Joe Biden ( US presidential contender )                  D F e C 
Donald Trump ( US presidential contender)             E B 
you add 
 On the basis , not on his character,  but what he /the republicans mostly stand for,  I hope Donald Trump and the Republicans win.
 I think the people have enough evidence of the fanciful , and enough good sense , to make a choice for the practical at this time. If I am right it will show in the  candidate wins as well . If i am right it will show in the candidates win more that in the votes for president .

Clearly the fanatical reactionary progressives in Australia are still in shock from last time. They  have not seen that many of their heavenly minded agendas are on the "reality is needed" skids too  .    



BIG PICTURE The idea of a president elect is not one I support, but the idealistic, reactionary  and out of touch attitudes of Democrats ( in general ) I cannot support .
The vulnerability of many thinking people to the Stockholm syndrome astounds me.
Q&A chairman last night tried to frame COVID as a crisis/virus  we can control and therefore people who don't agree with spending an "abundance of economic reserves" being poured into are deniers... 
No people who throw an "abundance of caution" at  a problem are those who are out of touch with the real world (esp when they ty to use our money and not real world risk management  to make decisions)
    
In an Australian context,  http://greenlabor.blogspot.com  I say to my fellow baby boomers, who love to see themselves as progressives , have yet to establish a way forward  ( one that takes the former things with them in a more robust and less reactionary way )
I do not support the Liberals either because they are as out of touch with reality as anyone in politics in Australia at the moment.


If a new association were thinking more they would win the hearts of our young people for a better and fairer and more stable working place /democracy as Ray Martin and  Kathy McGowan are now doing  . Being tough . Adjusting our representation so it is much more fair .