| Only like anything that isn't actually inciting a mob? Seriously, I can't believe you had good intent and were engaging in good faith with that question because it's so obviously baloney. You need to think hard about your values, or, educate yourself more about history. For example: - Winston Churchill's five-volume history of WWII. Read the first volume of that and you'll understand what is or isn't OK in government, even in exceptional times. You'll also understand what government actually is, and what politics actually is. You'll see what a leader making a difficult and controversial decision, and then taking responsibility for it, actually looks like - in both success and failure. - Leadership: In Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. A classic which looks at Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ at critical moments in their Presidencies and their past experiences which prepared them for success as leaders during a crisis. If you had read those books, or works of a similar quality, you would know better. As it stands it just sounds like you don't really understand what responsibility, leadership, accountability, politics, and government actually are. Or, that you're not interested in those things actually functioning in a just and democratic fashion. I honestly don't know which it is. Not to stereotype but I feel like SO many people on HN don't realize just how uneducated they are about history, government, and politics. |