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Originally posted by Orson: ↑

The pandemic gives an insight into how ineffective "strongman" leadership is, and leaders who act like a one-man-band.

Trump and Boris Johnson put themselves forward as guys who could cut through and get things done. Which was a lie, but worked while the going was good as the machinery of government ticked along and actually got things done. Then they started to dismantle the machinery of government and a crisis hit. We suddenly saw how utterly useless they were. Utter losers that couldn't be trusted to bring the beer to a BBQ.

Dan Andrews, while on the other side of politics, has a few similar tendencies with one saving grace. His Labor colleagues hate that he makes captain's calls without telling them or Cabinet. That's almost certainly caused the confusion that resulted in the hotel quarantine situation. But his pride made him refuse help with that and with his pitifully inept and understaffed contact tracing system.

But having caused the death of hundreds, Andrews imposed heavy-handed restrictions on Victorians to pay for his mistakes and they got the job done brilliantly. So if he is a dictator or strongman at least he's an effective one in this one situation. Meanwhile, incompetent losers like Trump and Johnson flail around useless while hundreds of thousands die.

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The pandemic gives us insight into the power the corporate state has over our levers of democracy. That is the lesson.
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