Potter wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 7:14 amRespectfully I'm not sure you (or tbf very many people at all) understand leadership in any sort of large organisation.Screwdriver wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:21 pm
Who is actually in charge? Who is writing his cue cards? Who is deciding the political strategy wrt Ukraine?
While Biden certainly has his finger in that pie, at least we can agree he is not making decisions about how it is baked.
He's certainly not sitting there knowing every detail and giving every order on every detail. He probably doesn't know half of what goes on, he can't. If you run anything big then sometimes you'll have senior people that have already decided on a course of action and they're just coming to you to explain the outline and get sign off. He'll know the gist of most major things, some things will be light on detail and he'll know literally nothing about other things even when his signature is on it.
Bidden might actually be a senile old fool and I think he certainly does show the signs of old age, but even if he was a thirty year old genius he'd still be getting shown which way to get up on stage.
Now then...that said, you're certainly right that there are powerful figures pulling strings and influencing decisions, but that's not just Biden, that's all democratic governments everywhere, they're influenced by money, connections and votes.
I think what you're looking for is a dictator that makes every decision, has a sufficient ego that he can't be influenced and listens to no one.
That is true. Of course I know nothing about how a large organisation is run, let alone a country. But a large organisation or country needs to have an objective, a purpose and for a country specifically, a moral compass and core values which shape decision making.
It is somewhat ironic then that the USA appears to be being run more like a business than a cultural entity or an exemplar for a capitalist democracy. Clearly that "business" is not geared towards benefitting its citizens which are increasingly being treated more like commodities. Nor do its objectives appear to be for the benefit of humanity generally or even world order and peace.
Instead it appears to have been taken over; politicians literally bought out by large global corporations and the entire country being run for the personal financial benefit of <whoever it is> that is telling Biden what to say and do. Given the recent revelations regarding the efficacy of the Pfizer "vaccine" (for example) it is shocking to think big pharma were able to "convince" the sitting government to make it illegal NOT to buy and use their product.
Then you discover their individual "advertising" budget (effectively sponsorship/bribery) constitutes fully three quarters of the entire mainstream media advertising revenue. Goodness knows how much they spent on "lobbying" (which frankly is literally bribery). Doesn't take a genius to work out why we were never told the truth about these medicines, nor why the government were so keen to enforce those mandates at the behest of corporate interests.
These are extraordinarily dangerous times with the creeping corporatisation of "democracy". A true leader, unlike Joe Biden, would stand up against these financial giants. After all, the government is merely a conduit for the enormous wealth that vast numbers of humans develop. Instead of humanity benefitting from their labours, the government squanders that wealth by funnelling it into the hands of big business in order to line their own pockets with kickbacks.
So yes, I appreciate a leader does not micromanage an entire country but they build a team around them which is supposed to represent the will of the people who have given them that power. What is happening now is the exact opposite. Governments are increasingly dictating to the people and silencing dissent.