(#6077) Only the maniacal want to be autocrats

      The idea that anyone would want to be a world ruler from his own perspective is a lot narcissistic. I mean think about it for a moment. If some person who was as sincere as Dr. King or Ghandi were to want to be the sole leader of the world then maybe I wouldn't be one hundred percent against it. However those types who seek justice and peace are not the ones who are forcefully applying for the job. With them it takes a mindset of brutality and cruelty to want to be the sole leader who can shape the fates of the rest of us. The current regional autocrats are pretty much all the same. They have no empathy nor compassion for the individual only their own ambitions.
     America was founded on the idea of breaking away from a monarch who was essentially an autocrat. The no taxation without representation call was just one of the many grievances we newly aroused revolutionary Americans used to cite as our red lines. The founding fathers and mothers of our nation knew we were born to be represented by ourselves as the future way forward. Which explains why our declaration of independence and our national constitution where less difficult to write. Those themes were on the top of our leaders and followers heads.
     Throughout that time since our revolutionary war victory our American democracy of we the people has been nothing short of a success. The only time when our nation has some hiccups is when the political party of anti democracy uses nefarious methods. The process of attaining a more perfect union does not happen over night nor does it happen without all of us shouldering a fair share. Democracy is a strong entity but not invincible. So we must protect her from those who use her to undercut her power. Our democracy is most invincible when protecting from without, but we are most vulnerable when protecting from within.