REAL LEADERSHIP

Why not begin with some things on which real leadership, it seems to me, is not based?

It is not based on a smooth running separation of powers.

It is not based on calling the estates General. We here call the legislatures, both state and federal, quite regularly, to little avail regarding real leadership.

It is not based on a military machine, although security concerns can never be far from its thots.

It is not based on liberals and conservatives haggling over enormous numbers of special interests.

It is not based on charisma.

It is not based on the qualities of only one individual, no matter how talented or brilliant that individual may be.

Real leadership is not based on a general consensus.

Real leadership is not based solely on a majority rule.

Real leadership is not based on decisions taken based on universal suffrage.

Real leadership is not based mainly on police power.

Real leadership is not based on fear.

Real leadership is not based on the dictates of wealth as such, even, especially, very great wealth.

Real leadership is not based on holding steadfastly to an ideology.

Real leadership is not consistent with a liberal international economic order.

Real leadership is not consistent with free trade.

Real leadership cannot be based mainly on protectionism.

Real leadership cannot promote or rely on sectionalist issues.
(The Lincoln Fallacy)

Real leadership is not consistent with sharing, globally, all natural resources.

Real leadership is not consistent with universal human rights.

Real leadership is not consistent with the equality of all men.

This is just a start of things real leadership is not, or cannot be based on.