It's important to understand that authoritarians use vice as a form of control.
People are dependent upon the vice that the authoritarian grants them, and so will fight to maintain that protection and privileged. This is why there are so many degenerates among the elites: pedophiles, drug addicts, alcoholics, womanizers, sluts, pimps, johns; hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple furries out there.
The image of their leadership is a confidence game that is balanced and the blackmail threat of exposing their vices to the world, which would de-legitimize them.
Incompetence works exactly the same way. Failing a person up into positions of power makes them dependent on their direct superiors. They won't dare take any risks because they can't do anything right; but are always grateful to be micromanaged from the people controlling them.
It's important to understand that authoritarians use vice as a form of control.
People are dependent upon the vice that the authoritarian grants them, and so will fight to maintain that protection and privileged. This is why there are so many degenerates among the elites: pedophiles, drug addicts, alcoholics, womanizers, sluts, pimps, johns; hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple furries out there.
The image of their leadership is a confidence game that is balanced and the blackmail threat of exposing their vices to the world, which would de-legitimize them.
Incompetence works exactly the same way. Failing a person up into positions of power makes them dependent on their direct superiors. They won't dare take any risks because they can't do anything right; but are always grateful to be micromanaged from the people controlling them.
This is why the archetypal bad guy always ends up with lackeys.
Anyone else think Kamala looks like Scar?