What do Americans want?
Too often, societies fall back to an "us against them" attitude when dealing with people who don't fully agree with their views on life and the way they "should" behave.
As one world leader famously said, however, "Who am I to judge?" Sadly, many people answer that question easily, quickly, personally and affirmatively. They take it upon themselves to be judgmental.
But as kids used to say when one of the gang got pushy, "Who died and left you boss?"
One route to promotion and success in some areas of business, and now in politics, too often is to show loyalty to the boss, even to the extent of saying you'd be willing to take a bullet for him.
For some, that's easy to say. For others, being willing to accept a constant barrage of insult, abuse and vilification is the price they're willing to pay to inflate the boss's ego and thereby keep a job.
But for the conscientious few, that's too high a price to pay.
So do Americans want loyalty to one person regardless of any proven flaws that person may have, or do they want a person who not only claims belief in traditional American values, but acts in ways that show belief in those values?
The first reflects the attitudes of a subject people toward a dictator, and the second shows a preference for an elected leader who puts the nation's needs before his own wants.
Did someone say greed for power?
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