I need a leader!
That’s deep.
>>Free men don’t need leaders<<
If everyone is a leader then there are no leaders.
In any group, leaders will emerge in proportion to the group size and the needs of the group.
Human are social animals — to suggest there isn’t a hierarchy is to ignore man’s humanity.
How rude.
You already ate an h.
A group acting as one, through the skills of a good leader is more powerful than an equal number of free agent individuals.
Therefore, if free men expect to remain free, they better be able to assemble under a leader to oppose the tyrant that commands a hoard of slaves.
It’s an age old conundrum. Think greek city states versus the persian empire.
That’s right. Cuz I don’t want to be told what to do.
Can you imagine an army without any leaders?
In government, we do need leaders, but they should be the guardians of our freedom, not our overloards. We tell them what we want, and they are supposed to figure out the best way to do it. The clowns we have in Washington today don’t seem to understand that.
Free men don’t need leaders, per se, they need representatives. Sheep need leaders. In fact, I cringe every time I see people, even on here, idolizing an individual man or woman as if that person will take us to the promised land. Conservatives should be promoting ideas, and supporting anyone who fights for those ideas, not exalting an individual, because every human is flawed, and eventually will falter in one area or another. Once that happens, we must be willing and resolved to put them aside.
“Free men don’t need leaders.”
Wrong.
“Despots do need followers however.”
Wrong.
“History proves me correct on this.”
Wrong again.
Humans do need a leader. Not all humans are born leaders,
I for example follow Jesus. He is my leader and I do need
Him. Not all people are kind or fair. Therefore we have a
government to make laws we follow.
Not all free men are leaders.
Could we have responded to 911 democratically? No. We would have lost the will do to anything long before we came to any kind of consensus on what to do.
So instead we have a republic, and a president, and a Supreme court. And if we take care to elect men of good character to the presidency and legislature, and we take care to enforce the checks and balances that have been set up, we will have good government.
Despots on the otherhand, do not need followers. They need nothing more than the passive consent of the governed. And that can obtain that by cowing the populace in fear. How many followers did Saddam have before he shot his father in the head and assumed power? How many did he have after? He had the third largest army in the world, but most of them were loyal only out of fear, and willingly laid down arms once they were certain that America was coming.
I need a leader!
Despots create followers with the influence of lead.
As Mao put it...
"Political power grows from the barrel of a gun."
Too bad for the depots that there is an armed citizenry in this country though huh?
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“Any comments?”
Questions:
1. If you’re a free man, whatever that is, and don’t want a leader, don’t you have to be self-employed? Who’d hire you if you wouldn’t accept their leadership to at least some degree?
2. If a free man has a family and children should he lead them, ever? (Disregarding those who’d say a man with a family isn’t a free man.)
3. Should a lost free man stay lost rather follow someone who could lead him out of being lost?
4. If you don’t want to lead and you don’t want to follow will you please stay out of the way?
“Somthing to think about. Free men don’t need leaders. Despots do need followers however.”
Neither is correct. Free men need leaders for any organization to function (family, church, business, etc.). Despots don’t need followers: they need to have a disarmed citizenry, and a small cadre of people willing to do the dirty work (not hard to find, if history is any guide).
So your statement is wrong. It should read: “Despots need a disarmed citizenry. Free men need the wisdom, the courage, and the means to defend freedom.”
Someting else to tink about.