Historic Hallmarks of Tyranny
Around tyranny are certain historic hallmarks. First, the need to relax or abolish the rule of law. Second, an indifference to human suffering or death. Third, the concept that these leaders are "great men" or women, under no rules, given their purity of spirit, and need for freedom. Fourth, that republicanism is too costly, being the kind of government with checks and balances, which cannot be risked. Fifth, that a new way of life on earth is being established that will end all suffering, want, greed, and wars, etc.
But consider how leaders act when they are convinced they're called to master humanity. Overall, the signal trait of leftist masters is overwhelming incompetence. Consider Joe Stalin, a clinically paranoid man without leadership training, who organized the Great Purge, targeting independent farmers, and his own communist party, resulting in 5 million deaths.
Not to be outdone, equally untrained Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward communalized farms, resulting in 40 million deaths. Both leaders murdered their own party officials, and pursued ethnic cleansing, creating terror, torture and murder. But how did either man serve his society? Carl Schmitt, in his Theory of the Partisan, uses Clausewitz' book Vom Kriege -- 'On War', writing: "Its formula of/for "war as the continuation of politics" is the theory of the partisan in a nutshell. This logic would be taken to its limit by Lenin and Mao Tse-tung…" (summary & book)
As an elected leader, one cannot fairly pursue Marxist goals while serving constituents, for several reasons. First, a communist is only dedicated to the holy revolution, but this means rejecting established democratic norms. Second, the pompous, condescending and dismissive nature of socialist sloganeering insults and antagonizes the average person. Third, leftism is broadly lawless such that any graft or dishonesty is considered irrelevant by the participants, and fitting pay for their sacrifices.
This is well-illustrated by Biden's own scofflaw son Hunter, who's raked in millions in international graft for the Biden crime family. Also, San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi amassed hundreds of millions, a suspected result of Silicon Valley insider trading. Yet, recall how regularly Pelosi presents herself as blissfully superior to any naysayers, even sassing the newly elected president Trump to his face. Is scornful, greedy and vindictive Nancy really an example of the Founder's model of servant leadership?
