We Are Cursed With Twitter

We are cursed with a leadership class that is afraid to lead. They want to stay in office more than anything and tell themselves that it will allow them to gently bend the arc of history, but mostly they want to stay in office. Our leaders are little more than to lead the country to followers.

— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) July 16, 2021

The logical question in a democracy is: lead whom, where?

AOC wants to lead the country to a Green New Deal. I happen to agree with her; but how should she do that? The way she’s doing now; or should she take the reins and force us all to follow? Or should we all have been Bernie Bros.?

Trump’s supporters are determined to see him as a leader. Why are they wrong?

Who should be leading us, and how should they do it? Barack Obama tried to. But should he have spent more time in the Senate, like Joe Biden did? And wouldn’t that involve many, many years of mostly wanting to stay in office? Alternatively, is Joe Biden a leader now because of decades in office? Certainly seems that way. Discuss.

Is this a government that leads the people? Or that represents the people?

I have no doubt my ideas of where leaders should lead doesn’t look much like Gregg Nunziata’s ideas. So which of us has to follow the leader? And which one of us decides who that leader is?

Final question: what is the “arc of history” and who gets to bend it? And why them?

You have two hours. Show your work.