Friday - February 13, 2009

Cult of Personality

Change was promised.  Vague change.  No two people could identify what that change would entail.  This was by design.  Each of us could paint onto Him whatever hopes and characteristics we wished to see.  

We elected a Personality, not an idea.  As He likes to brag, He won.  It wasn't His ideas that won, He never really shared any ideas.  It wasn't His policies that won, He never held any.  It wasn't His background or experience that won, He didn't have any.  

And He won.  Now, no matter His ideas, no matter His policies, no matter His background or experience, it is He that we elected, and now He can do as He pleases because no matter what He does, it is blessed by the election.  He carries that blessing to all that He does.

This is the danger of electing a personality.

There is no perfect person.  There is no fool proof system.  There are no guarantees  when we elect someone to office.  Anyone can be corrupted.  This is why we usually insist that our leaders express a philosophical base, backed up by experience.  When they take office they can claim a mandate for that philosophy, and we can demand adherence to it.

His mandate is not a philosophy.  His mandate is Him.  And we are stuck with whatever whims of His own personal agenda He decides to put forth.

And among other, more obvious dangers of a cult of personality, He is a communist.

 

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