But you said success is a measurement of what lasts, what is signed into law. Seems like you're changing this to lip service is as fruitful as results.
Two different things. You can certainly measure his successes - A measure of his Administration - But that is not the measure of the man.
Well, this is a frightening peek behind the curtain separating the Reaganite political brain trust and mere mortal voters. Do Reagan devotees feel the same about Generals and battle?
Merit based individualism frightens you? That explains a lot.
Certainly our LEOs and DEFCONs are leadership based to some great degree - But even there, the leader is judged upon merit... They just can't quit following (order-bound, chain of command).
You are talking to one particularly ill equipped to play follow the leader, As a Western man, and as a hillbilly redneck, I am the last man to follow anyone. I have built my life on a libertarian independence, and making due for myself. I have been an entrepreneur all my life, having spent little time working for anyone, learning how to build or fix whatever I need... So that individualism is emphasized in me.
I recognize a boss by his merit, not by any right, or emblem. I hold no man above another, except fathers and forefathers who have earned respect. I can't tell you how many jobs I have walked off from because the leadership was going the wrong way. I won't put my name on shoddy work, or association with shoddy work, and I won't make money from a job poorly led. So ALWAYS as an independent contractor, I can and will walk off.
I would hope my fellows are much the same, to the degree they can be. And the ones I hang with certainly are exactly that way.
Where are you guarding these select precepts ---and how?
History taught, and life experience passed down through families. teaching others as they come along - those with the cajones to stand outside of the rat maze.
Go read some books.
