Bi-Polar Politics - Douglas Castle, Co-Chairman Of TNNWC Group, LLC
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Incessant Detractors:
It's a perfectly predictable Human behavioral phenomenon, which stems from a need to blame a third party (to abdicate responsibility); a natural fear-mongering "mob mentality,"; a quest for simplification of the thought process by generalizing and stereotyping; and the natural propensity to exaggerate to make a point.
To be a republican almost requires that you denounce anything which the democrats are doing, while you embrace (part and parcel) whatever is put up on the republican table.
To be a democrat almost requires that you denounce everything which the republicans are doing or have done in previous administrations, and that you accept whatever is put up on the democratic table.
This leads to radicalism and an unhealthy "groupthink" on the part of both parties. After a while, the role of either party simple becomes to upseat, defame and encumber the actions of the other party. It turns very negative, and problem-solving and bridge-building are replaced by finger-pointing and wild leaps of paranoic logic. It's not bi-partisan. It's more bipolar, with a deep twist of paranoid schizophrenia on each side. respectively.
Lies lead to bigger lies. The unproven rumor becomes grassroots gospel. Distortions and contortions abound. Now Hear This! -- The "average democrat" is a leftist, radical progressive, while the "average republican" is a xenophobic, flag-waving demagogue, hawkishly obsessed with matters of terrorism and national security. The polarization grows to the extent that there is no room on either party's agenda for having its members serve the citizenry of the United States.
Citizens have become spectators. We have largely stopped thinking and accepted party platforms as package deals without individual picking and choosing of what's good or bad about either. It's all or none. It's black or white.
Bi-Polar politics, and the politicians and pundits who play and promote them, are inherently devisive, destructive and are a simpleton's circus of simplification. They are an omnipresent, loud diversion from the business of team-building and problem-solving that is incumbent upon any organization (a company or a Nation-State) wishing to survive in hard times.
It is not unlike the staff and crew of the ill-fated Titanic pointing at eachother to determine "whose fault it is" while the ship sinks rapidly into the icy water, with far too few lifeboats to rescue all of the passengers -- whoever designed the vessel was either very negligent or very, very self-confident.
A real commander has to transcend politics and a "shame and blame" behavioral default setting in order to unite the troops and make progress in solving problems and moving onward.
What have we here in the United States? Two parties fighting. A public (and a republic) losing hope, faith and initiative. And not a single leader to fill the void that is sucking the life out of a once-great nation.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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Douglas Castle
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Incessant Detractors:
It's a perfectly predictable Human behavioral phenomenon, which stems from a need to blame a third party (to abdicate responsibility); a natural fear-mongering "mob mentality,"; a quest for simplification of the thought process by generalizing and stereotyping; and the natural propensity to exaggerate to make a point.
To be a republican almost requires that you denounce anything which the democrats are doing, while you embrace (part and parcel) whatever is put up on the republican table.
To be a democrat almost requires that you denounce everything which the republicans are doing or have done in previous administrations, and that you accept whatever is put up on the democratic table.
This leads to radicalism and an unhealthy "groupthink" on the part of both parties. After a while, the role of either party simple becomes to upseat, defame and encumber the actions of the other party. It turns very negative, and problem-solving and bridge-building are replaced by finger-pointing and wild leaps of paranoic logic. It's not bi-partisan. It's more bipolar, with a deep twist of paranoid schizophrenia on each side. respectively.
Lies lead to bigger lies. The unproven rumor becomes grassroots gospel. Distortions and contortions abound. Now Hear This! -- The "average democrat" is a leftist, radical progressive, while the "average republican" is a xenophobic, flag-waving demagogue, hawkishly obsessed with matters of terrorism and national security. The polarization grows to the extent that there is no room on either party's agenda for having its members serve the citizenry of the United States.
Citizens have become spectators. We have largely stopped thinking and accepted party platforms as package deals without individual picking and choosing of what's good or bad about either. It's all or none. It's black or white.
Bi-Polar politics, and the politicians and pundits who play and promote them, are inherently devisive, destructive and are a simpleton's circus of simplification. They are an omnipresent, loud diversion from the business of team-building and problem-solving that is incumbent upon any organization (a company or a Nation-State) wishing to survive in hard times.
It is not unlike the staff and crew of the ill-fated Titanic pointing at eachother to determine "whose fault it is" while the ship sinks rapidly into the icy water, with far too few lifeboats to rescue all of the passengers -- whoever designed the vessel was either very negligent or very, very self-confident.
A real commander has to transcend politics and a "shame and blame" behavioral default setting in order to unite the troops and make progress in solving problems and moving onward.
What have we here in the United States? Two parties fighting. A public (and a republic) losing hope, faith and initiative. And not a single leader to fill the void that is sucking the life out of a once-great nation.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
***Join us as a Member of TNNWC Group, LLC and receive The National Networker Weekly Newsletter, The BLUE TUESDAY Report , and other award-winning publications and intelligence bulletins absolutely free...as well as privileged access to all of our unparalled business services for emerging enterprises. We are The New Economy. Join us today and take part. Don't go it alone. Click on http://bit.ly/JoinTNNWC now.
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