Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Loki’s speech to the Germans, “Kneel before me. I said… KNEEL! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.”

I feel like the current autocratic wing of the Republican party honest has taken this line from the Avengers movie to heart. As a party they have zero inclination to Lead that is not in their nature their determination is to Rule. Ruling gives no quarter to dissent or debate, it only requires subjugation of the masses.

A ruler is detached from the people and the process and focused on the outcome. As long as results are produced, they don’t care how or how much the people suffered or sacrificed.

Sadly, even this is to far for the current Republicans because they don’t even pretend to have a result-oriented agenda their current mission. It appears is to turn the reigns of power over to corporations and the moneyed interests as long as they hold the power there is no concern of anything else.

The leader is focused on the people, process, and the outcome. But they are most focused on the people. They know that life is precious, and each person is a life, and they engage them so that their work is interesting or to alleviate their suffering to the extent that s/he can. They also understand that by shifting the process around, it can change a mundane task to a more emotionally satisfying task, and they look for opportunities to do that.

The Democratic party seems to be more interested in leading but that requires a level of cooperation that in our two-party system does not exist.

Our current President, Joe Biden, consistently reaches out to the opposition in hopes of some level of bi-partisan collaboration. His Democratic predecessor President Obama tried the same things with similar results.

Trump in the 4 years he occupied the office did little to nothing that would constitute what anyone could consider legislating. His apparent mission was to Rule while enriching himself for the position and continually keep his name in the headlines.

It’s astounding the level of accomplishments that the current occupant of the White House has achieved while not constantly having his name in the new lexicon. Apparently, that’s what a Leader does, works for the people he serves without incessantly seeking attention.

The similarities of how Loki craved the throne to rule and Trumps time in office are uncanny. Loki usurped the throne through trickery just as Trump held the seat of power via deceit and underhanded dealings. Undoubtedly if Donald would have achieved a second term he would have attempted to destroy the constitutional Presidential term limits and make himself President for life just as Xi Jinping has done in China and Putin has done in Russia.

We dodged a bullet in 2020 but I don’t think we are out of the woods yet. Even if Donald does not attain the Office of the Presidency again that are worse despots out there that are far smarter. The authoritarian Governor of Florida has designs on becoming President and he know how to pull the levers that Trump couldn’t find.

The right wants to call the democrats ANTFA, Anti-Fascist. I really don’t have a problem with that I don’t want to see fascism I this country or anywhere. From my understanding of history that is exactly what the Greatest Generation fought for, Hitler was a Fascist, Mussolini was a Fascist, Trump and DeSantis want to be Fascists, but they are currently disguising themselves as legitimately elected officials.

Review your history people that how it gets started.  ☹