Why does “leading from behind” sound so repulsive? Or is it just me?
-The leader of the Puppeteers is known as the Hindmost. Since Pierson’s Puppeteers are foremost concerned with their own safety and the survival of their species, the most important Puppeteer is considered to be behind, or protected by, every other member of the species. It is a shortening from the more literal the one who leads from behind. A maddened, deposed Hindmost is responsible for Louis Wu’s return to the Ringworld in the book The Ringworld Engineers.-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers
The Hindmost was a vegetarian leader. He leads from behind because that was the most protected place in the herd. It’s repulsive because it is the opposite of what we call manly. Every time Obama or somebody in his Administration uses the term lead from behind, it reminds me of these heard creatures.
Leading from behind is what a Marxist says he’s doing when in fact he’s doing everything possible to FUBAR a given situation. It also provides the Marxist press an official policy label for the FUBAR mess left in the Marxists wake.