Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Convective but not contrastive
Convective thought:
AMLO and Salvini and Orban and Putin get BIG SHIT done because they're RESONANT.
There are three layers involved here.
(1) Baseline for any politician is lifetime experience in politics. I mistakenly believed that the Outsider could break through the fog of bureaucracy, but it can't work that way. Bureaucrats easily cancel out everything the Outsider tries. The four listed leaders are all lifetime politicians. They know how to drive the complicated bureaucracy vehicle.
(3) Beyond the baseline, RESONANCE gets big things done fast and easy. The four listed leaders belong to the native culture and understand how the native culture works. They know how to pick up an existing trend, magnify it, and ride it.
(2) But before a politician can ride the cultural curves, a country must HAVE a culture. Italy and Mexico haven't been totally ruined by Soros. Hungary and Russia were partly ruined by Stalin, but retained their churches and families.
US and UK and France and Krautland are totally ruined and unsalvageable. Because our destroyers used the soft power of TV instead of Stalin's iron fist, our cultural immune system was defeated. Now there's nothing to resonate with.
Am I contrasting the four versus Trump? No. He's not a leader at all. He's just a brand mascot like the Jolly Green Giant or the Geico Lizard. He resonates nicely with the Pied Piper mascot role crafted by Hillary and Deepstate, because he only knows how to be a brand mascot.
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