G.L. Hoffman points out that Ron Paul’s leadership is successful because of three factors:
- “Find an enemy.” I.e. external focus.
- “Make a movement.” I.e. have a transcendent cause.
- “Talk that way.” I.e. speak of we and success as if it’s already a done deal.
It sounds to me like Ron Paul is working straight out of the Tribal Leadership playbook. I’ve read that book 3 times so far this year. One of these days it’s going to start sinking in.
What is this article supposed to mean?
How about,
1 – Dare to speak the truth
2 – Educate the people about it
3 – Do something about it — like have a revolution for which we are long overdue.
We separated ourselves from the oligarchy before, and we shall do it again. We shall prevail in freedom, long live the SOVEREIGN nation of the United States of American under the Constitution and the UN BE DAMNED!
It means what it says. That’s all. I agree almost completely with Ron Paul’s politics, but that’s not what this post was about. It’s only about his leadership style. Your summary is also correct, but point #2 works against him. For the most part, educating people doesn’t work. Brainwashing works, hence the MSM and our public school system. Bribery works, hence our de facto two-party political system. Education doesn’t. It takes too much work, and people are lazy by nature. They want to know the truth if it doesn’t hurt too much, and they want to act on it if it doesn’t overly disrupt their regularly scheduled programming.
Giving people a cause to believe in and motivate them works. If it’s a good cause, like Liberty or Justice, all the better, but that’s just icing. If you want the best sorts of people to move, then you have to give them a cause they can believe in. You have to make them feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves or their little corner of reality. A revolution, as you say.
That’s what Paul did. Unfortunately, most people are too weighed down beneath their entertainment and prozac to believe completely in anything at all.