Do you wonder why Liberal Democrat politicians hate America’s police men and women? Do you wonder why they are pressuring so many police men and women to quit? Then consider how police forces are used by authoritarian regimes. Our police men and women don’t qualify for that sort of work.
Did you ever wonder how an educated, free and wealthy country like 1930’s Germany fell in to madness and allowed Hitler and his Nazis goons to take over? I’ve pondered this question a lot over the years, thinking it must have been an anomaly, or that the people somehow were tricked, or that it was just some crazy one off that and the horrors of the Holocaust would not happen again.
The thing is, Germany’s descent in to tyranny didn’t happen overnight, many things happened before Hitler even took power that primed German citizens to accept this evil madman as their leader and comply with his diktats. The events leading up to this would (and have filled) many novels, but one of the biggest warning signs was the creation of Geheime…
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Citizen Tom 
People are always amazed to discover they have bought the BS of manipulation and the past few years have arrived us at a point where rehtoric is dividing societies while politicians fuel this.
Sobering times we live in.
@mickmar21
Politicians are generally more intelligent and gifted than the rest of us, but they generally are not any wiser. We only get wise leaders when we have a little wisdom ourselves.
What sort of wisdom. We have to begin with the understanding that none of us is good. We cannot even trust ourselves. Then when elect people to lead us we will understand why we cannot give our leaders any more power than absolutely necessary. Few of us can resist the temptations of great power.
I disagree in part with the first part of your response due to some of the absolute drongos that have become politicians in Australia. Yet your premise does hold true in many regards.
I wrote about wisdom in Antipodean Angst – part 1. Somehow it seems more relevant now as every week passes by.
@mickmar21
Amazing how many words there are for “fool.” I had not heard the term drongo before.
The relationship between wisdom and intelligence can be difficult for us to understand. Yet I think we need to understand thatb without wisdom we have difficulty being humble enough to perceive ourself as others do.
Thanks Tom, I appreciate you posting this.
@Tricia
My pleasure. I just think we need to pray people will come to their senses and ask for some wisdom from our Lord.