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Leadership Crisis in America: Why Most Americans Distrust Government Leaders
PatriotandLiberty Blog ^ | Mar 31, 2032 | Pete Hoekstra

Posted on 04/03/2023 1:56:00 AM PDT by spirited irish

Beyond government mismanagement of multiple U.S. war efforts, Americans have seen so many examples of outright government deceit. FBI and intelligence leaders fostered the notion that President-elect Trump was compromised by Russia. The "Russia hoax" persisted for more than two years as a cloud over the head of President Trump and incapacitated the country. Congressional leaders such as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff promised the American people that he had direct evidence about Trump that warranted the president's impeachment. Later, it became clear that he did not, but that has not stopped him from continuing to push his fabrication as he mounts a Senate bid in California. Fifty-one intelligence professionals and leaders signed a letter implying that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation and not real. They were all wrong.

Investigations into the origins of the COVID pandemic, continuing attempts to set up some version of a Department of Misinformation and Disinformation – read: the government deciding for you what "truth" is, then punishing citizens who might disagree -- and the weaponization of the government against citizens ongoing in the House of Representatives may expose even more examples of the federal government bureaucracy being deceitful in its interactions with the American people.

(Excerpt) Read more at patriotandliberty.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; greed; stupidity

1 posted on 04/03/2023 1:56:00 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: spirited irish

Our leaders are dishonest even at the local level

Why should I trust anyone of them


2 posted on 04/03/2023 1:59:43 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

They all suck. We should hang all of them.


3 posted on 04/03/2023 2:13:00 AM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: waterhill

Oh shif, there’s a black gmc out fr


4 posted on 04/03/2023 2:16:51 AM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: waterhill

Just kidding for now. But there will be a dead me and a dog and some feds too. In a pile of brass, and or plastic.

Feds are queers and diverse.


5 posted on 04/03/2023 2:28:27 AM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: spirited irish

Because they are dishonest crooks


6 posted on 04/03/2023 2:32:20 AM PDT by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: spirited irish

Democrats are Satanic.
Republicans in MANY cases are Democrat lite.
I trust NONE of them because NONE of them have earned my trust.
Sad state of affairs, but politicians have purposely EARNED our mistrust.
F them ALL!!!!


7 posted on 04/03/2023 2:39:48 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: spirited irish
It's the nature of government. Unless leaders are continually threatened with replacement, they become self-serving and drift in the direction of incompetence. Bureaucracies are even worse...and committees are (with exceptions) the absolute worse.

It has to do with 2 factors. First, the further away from a metric of accountability a person or group is, the worse their performance (and the greater their opportunity for self-serving). Second, groups (bureaucracies or committees) become like mobs where individual accountability is hard to assign and people's "baser" instincts become dominant.

8 posted on 04/03/2023 2:41:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: spirited irish
Groups (governments, bureaucracies, committees) quickly develop group personas and the group requires conformity to that.

Conformity kills clear thinking because people who might be very clear-headed and quick of mind as individuals find that in groups their focus is divided between group conformity (conformity to artificial rules) and the problem at hand.

Or, perhaps better said, the unrestricted intellectual pursuit of solutions and performance becomes, well, restricted by the demand to conform when an individual is part of a group.

Needless to say, I am not a joiner or conformist.;-)

9 posted on 04/03/2023 2:59:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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10 posted on 04/03/2023 3:20:30 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: spirited irish

My number one reason for not trusting them is because they’re all corrupt, bottom feeding Neanderthals. Decent people don’t run for political office anymore. They don’t want to put their wives and children through all the political commie BS.


11 posted on 04/03/2023 5:49:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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To prove my point, just take a look at all the foreign garbage running our government in Washington. Americans don’t want no part of that crap up there anymore so the U.S. Government and Congress is the easiest place for foreign garbage to get themselves a high paying job.


12 posted on 04/03/2023 5:53:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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To: spirited irish

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13 posted on 04/03/2023 6:09:33 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: spirited irish

Our “Leaders” are sniveling cowards, which is the end result in a banana republic after the weaponization of the judicial system and the communist press. They all know to tread very lightly lest they be destroyed.


14 posted on 04/03/2023 6:13:47 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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