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The Best World Leader..Is? Deeds Speak!

Lostpuppy

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Your have an opinion, maybe a fav president, prime minister, premier, king.. heck even dictator. The all came to lead people… sometimes astray🤔

Who your favorite? Why? What personality is this leader? Share….
By the way ,,, there will not be many who agree with each other!!! Thats one guarantee!

Soooo?
 
So, on thinking, you may have lots, I do
Ron Regan, John F Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Maragret Thatcher , Winston Churchill,
Their personas, impact on American history just some if the few things that bring them to mind!!!

The list of not the best is another discussion….🤔
 
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Leadership Traits of Successful Democratic Leaders
Historical & Behavioral Analysis
Studies of leadership psychology show that traits linked to rule-breaking or criminality (risk-taking, defiance of authority, manipulation) appear in many historical leaders.
However, democratic leaders differ from authoritarian or criminal actors in how these traits are constrained by ethics, legitimacy, and accountability.

Research across leadership biographies suggests:
  • ~20–30% of historically powerful leaders displayed borderline or antisocial personality traits
  • but successful democratic leaders typically moderated these traits with empathy, legitimacy, and institutional respect
Top 10 Leadership Traits for Democratic Leadership

1. Vision
  • Ability to articulate a clear future direction
  • Inspires collective purpose and long-term thinking
  • Converts complex problems into understandable goals
2. Legitimacy and Respect for Institutions
  • Works within constitutional or legal frameworks
  • Accepts limits on personal power
  • Strengthens institutions rather than replacing them
3. Moral Credibility
  • Perceived integrity and ethical consistency
  • Followers believe the leader acts in the public interest
4. Decisiveness Under Uncertainty
  • Makes difficult decisions with incomplete information
  • Maintains momentum during crisis
5. Communication Mastery
  • Ability to translate complex policy into clear narrative
  • Persuades diverse audiences and builds consensus
6. Empathy and Social Awareness
  • Understands the needs of different groups
  • Prevents polarization and social fragmentation
7. Strategic Thinking
  • Sees second- and third-order consequences
  • Balances short-term wins with long-term stability
8. Resilience
  • Maintains stability under criticism, failure, or crisis
  • Recovers quickly from political setbacks


  • 9. Coalition Building
  • Creates alliances among competing interests
  • Essential for functioning democracies where power is distributed
10. Controlled Rule-Breaking
  • Willing to challenge norms when necessary for progress
  • But does so within ethical boundaries and accountability
Traits Often Shared with “Rule-Breaker” Personalities
Research finds that some traits overlap with those found in criminal or antisocial behavior, but democratic leaders channel them differently:
Trait​
Risk​
Democratic Use​
Risk tolerancereckless behaviorbold reform
Strategic manipulationdeceptionnegotiation leverage
Defiance of authoritylawlessnessreforming broken systems
Ambitionpower seekingnational vision
The key difference is constraint by institutions, law, and public accountability.
Key Research Conclusion
Effective democratic leadership is often a balance between two forces:
Boldness (often seen in rule-breakers)
AND
Legitimacy (respect for democratic norms)
When either side dominates:
  • Too much boldness → authoritarianism
  • Too much caution → ineffective leadership
The most successful democratic leaders operate in the tension between these extremes.
 
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Torch said:
Ronald Reagan based 49 of 50 states carried and not ending up an irradiated wasteland.

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

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I agree...Reagan. But I was a kid in the 1980s ;) He just seemed to want to protect us all during a scary time.
 
Leadership is about setting a good example, presenting yourself to the public with higher moral and ethical standards, supporting the fair laws of your nation, representing the people of your land in their interests, bot your agenda. Realise your in a position of responsibilty for those that put you in that position.
Leadership is directly related to accountabilty

A democratic Leadership should never be about personal profit, gain or protections from deeds commited

An authoritarion leader is the opposite to the above.

While the people may thrive under the autoritarian leader , this only happens to those who conform, history teaches what happens.

Are we learning anything from the present?
 
Lostpuppy said:
Leadership is about setting a good example, presenting yourself to the public with higher moral and ethical standards, supporting the fair laws of your nation, representing the people of your land in their interests, bot your agenda. Realise your in a position of responsibilty for those that put you in that position.
Leadership is directly related to accountabilty

A democratic Leadership should never be about personal profit, gain or protections from deeds commited

An authoritarion leader is the opposite to the above.

While the people may thrive under the autoritarian leader , this only happens to those who conform, history teaches what happens.

Are we learning anything from the present?
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That’s all subjective and perfectly manicured through the spin machine.

Is Trump a rule breaker and less moral than we would hope for, probably.
Compared to Biden trying to use executive action repeatedly to absolve student loans. Or using the power of his office as vp to force the then Ukrainian gov to drop investigations into companies. The Biden family had business interests in.

I’m not defending Trump here or castigating Biden. Only pointing out that our perceptions of who’s moral and virtuous are rarely accurate.

A good leader will always be subjective to the people and times. Lincoln was a good leader because his actions successfully held the Union together.
The ills of advanced executive power came from lesser men in power after Lincoln.

A good leader works within confines of its nations customs and laws to advance and secure economic stability the integrity of the nations interests.
Queen Elizabeth was a great leader she did all that even with the constraints of being a female monarch.

I can allow FDR being a great leader because like Lincoln he was managing a world in rapid change. While I believe many things he enacted were counter productive, it was a very difficult time.

Il say it history will judge Trump much kinder than most do today. He’s stretching the norms, but still respecting the courts final decisions.
He’s securing the boarders and hemisphere. Trying to expand stability in the middle east beyond his first term.
Granted bombing the shit out of Iran is unconventional and risky. He’s a risk taker.
Tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a settlement in Ukraine, not because we like the current status. But because escalation is simply too great a risk and cost.
Making unpleasant decisions.

I don’t much care if a have a foul mouth New Yorker who says what he thinks, even if he’s wrong sometimes.
Or a smooth talking professional politician who has every public utterance scripted.
And meaningless because it’s mostly full of untruths or half truths.

Outcome is what makes a good leader and yes respect the social and legal norms of the nation matter. But outcome matters most
 
Lostpuppy said:
Leadership is about setting a good example, presenting yourself to the public with higher moral and ethical standards, supporting the fair laws of your nation, representing the people of your land in their interests, bot your agenda. Realise your in a position of responsibilty for those that put you in that position.
Leadership is directly related to accountabilty

A democratic Leadership should never be about personal profit, gain or protections from deeds commited

An authoritarion leader is the opposite to the above.

While the people may thrive under the autoritarian leader , this only happens to those who conform, history teaches what happens.

Are we learning anything from the present?
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Apparantly not. From a global scale not US world view. Globally imo 97% approx hav'nt followed your / our interpretation for a long long time let alone term/ terms 😉😮‍💨🙄😤😤🤬
 
Yingyang said:
Apparantly not. From a global scale not US world view. Globally imo 97% approx hav'nt followed your / our interpretation for a long long time let alone term/ terms 😉😮‍💨🙄😤😤🤬
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Over the years I had many oppotunities to lead, and teach leadership. Yes! the world is not they way it was, and could have been,
We are no longer in the realm of setting examples in moral and ethical behavior and demonstrated habits.
Its appears chaotic personslities seem to fit our free world,
Is that why people are trend to athoritarian leadership styles, during challenging economic times?

During the 20’ we observed this trend.
The 30’s saw even further changes,

The Russian revolution made ssnse but power struggles evolved from the chaos and we saw the Stalinistic Soviet Union,
People ruled by authoritian leaders tend to be compliant, subserviant and submisive, simply for survival. This hardens people, good or bad, We see dictators and other communist regimes rule well, due to the fear.
The cost, freedom!
 
Lostpuppy said:
Over the years I had many oppotunities to lead, and teach leadership. Yes! the world is not they way it was, and could have been,
We are no longer in the realm of setting examples in moral and ethical behavior and demonstrated habits.
Its appears chaotic personslities seem to fit our free world,
Is that why people are trend to athoritarian leadership styles, during challenging economic times?

During the 20’ we observed this trend.
The 30’s saw even further changes,

The Russian revolution made ssnse but power struggles evolved from the chaos and we saw the Stalinistic Soviet Union,
People ruled by authoritian leaders tend to be compliant, subserviant and submisive, simply for survival. This hardens people, good or bad, We see dictators and other communist regimes rule well, due to the fear.
The cost, freedom!
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Yes and have noticed the trend to copy these leaderships by the west ?
 
Lostpuppy said:
Over the years I had many oppotunities to lead, and teach leadership. Yes! the world is not they way it was, and could have been,
We are no longer in the realm of setting examples in moral and ethical behavior and demonstrated habits.
Its appears chaotic personslities seem to fit our free world,
Is that why people are trend to athoritarian leadership styles, during challenging economic times?

During the 20’ we observed this trend.
The 30’s saw even further changes,

The Russian revolution made ssnse but power struggles evolved from the chaos and we saw the Stalinistic Soviet Union,
People ruled by authoritian leaders tend to be compliant, subserviant and submisive, simply for survival. This hardens people, good or bad, We see dictators and other communist regimes rule well, due to the fear.
The cost, freedom!
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What does authoritarian even mean? It gets thrown around tacitly implying it’s a right wing problem.
What about the authoritarian tendencies to pack the Supreme Court with more justices. Or publicly saying they will ignore scotus rulings.
Or using Civil and criminal courts to prosecute a political candidate in order to disqualify them as a candidate.

So if we’re going to allude to authoritarian tendencies let’s just make sure we are clear from whence there coming
 
Publius said:
What does authoritarian even mean? It gets thrown around tacitly implying it’s a right wing problem.
What about the authoritarian tendencies to pack the Supreme Court with more justices. Or publicly saying they will ignore scotus rulings.
Or using Civil and criminal courts to prosecute a political candidate in order to disqualify them as a candidate.

So if we’re going to allude to authoritarian tendencies let’s just make sure we are clear from whence there coming
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You hit upon a great question 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Authoritarian, currently media is having a heyday with misinterpretation. Lets define it, Ms Google please….

“An authoritarian ruler is defined as a leader who concentrates power, suppresses political pluralism and opposition, and demands unquestionable obedience, often using repression to limit individual freedoms and civil liberties
. These leaders typically operate without established mechanisms for the transfer of power and maintain control through fear, state apparatuses, or control over media.
Wikipedia +2
While authoritarianism is a, method of rule rather than a specific ideology, it can be, classified as right-wing or left-wing based on the justification for their power and the goals of their regime: “

Wow! needless to say when the finger gets pointed and a ruler is described as Authoritarian , we want to shorten its description, (human nature)

So your answer to your question now allows to get clarity, left or right is another discussion.
Anyone who has military, law enforcement , emergrncy services experience clearly understands the need for this form of command,🤔

in attempts to think leaderships styles , we can now ask , Are the trusted voted in leaders of free world nations on the edge of authoritian leadership or truly democratic relying on the support of the people of their lands?

Are the leaders and members of government directly responsible to the rules of justice and do they respect such rules?

Can of worms,,,,,,,, you bet!!!!
 
On Leaders here is a very good summation

6 ways Trump escalated military force in his second term​

President Trump hasn't been shy about deploying the U.S. military during his second term.

Why it matters: Despite promoting himself as a president of peace, he's deployed the U.S. military in multiple American cities and across the globe, striking Iran and others, raiding Venezuelaand striking suspected drug boats in the Caribbean.
 
Do not take offense to this but have you ever seen the YouTube page TDLR? They already have a monthly review of the most powerful or influential leaders...

But I would like to see what people here think about that. For sure!
 
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