The psychology of power
June 27th 2010 03:38
As I wrote earlier, the quick execution of Rudd has left a dangerous culture of assasination in the ALP and thus fed the lust for power among certain party elements. The ALP has always suffered from having as part of its varied ranks a group of (mostly) men whose only real interest is wielding power and the goodies that come from it (like money, trips away, contact with characters on the edge of crime who can provide good times). The two most obvious components have been the NSW right and right wing union officials across Oz.
These men have no ideals to dilute their actions, and see any ethical inclinations as simple weakness. Instead they live to exercise their own power, and nothing does that like killing a leader.
Certainly they claim the overt goodies when they can, like retiring into the Senate to sleep off long lunches in the back benches, but mostly they know their ugly faces don't really fit in any situation that has the least public oversight. Better to stay in the union and Party back rooms plotting dodgy union election wins and Party branch stacking.
They will have got huge erections killing off Rudd and planting Gillard in the PM's job, and their remarkable success will have only made them lust for more such satisfaction. Too bad about the hapless union members and ALP supporters who deserve much better, not to mention the whole country that desperately needs principled leadership to deal with the worst structural problems since World War 2.
These men have no ideals to dilute their actions, and see any ethical inclinations as simple weakness. Instead they live to exercise their own power, and nothing does that like killing a leader.
They will have got huge erections killing off Rudd and planting Gillard in the PM's job, and their remarkable success will have only made them lust for more such satisfaction. Too bad about the hapless union members and ALP supporters who deserve much better, not to mention the whole country that desperately needs principled leadership to deal with the worst structural problems since World War 2.
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