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Facts are stubborn things; they don't always fit conveniently into our lives.
Our love affair with masculinity is a major blind spot and leads us to revere the wrong traits in our leaders. This has been one of our largest and most enduring problems because we sweep the problems with masculinity under the rug. If we can speak openly and honestly about it, for a minute, it should be one of the easiest ingredients to understand.
The skills that are needed for effective leadership in government, particularly in the office of the President, are naturally lacking in men. For example, Men are authoritarian and domineering by nature. Men get more easily embarrassed by personal failure than women. Men are much slower to admit mistakes than women. Men are more power hungry than women. Men are worse at dealing with matters of complexity. They are less patient. Men take excessive pride in making fast decisions at the expense of accuracy. If men cannot be noticed for doing good, men will more quickly resort to being noticed for being bad. This is true of all people, but more so of men than women.
Men make up over 93% of all the people locked up in our society. Why is that? If you look into what it means to be an alpha dog - at an alpha dog's biological traits - and you compare them to a woman, you would come to see the flaws in men that are not suited for leadership positions in projects involving a need for balance, moderation, and humility.
America has never prioritized mental health. Kindness and compassion are seen in America as touchy-feely, or unmanly, uncool, overthinking, “womanly”. We’ve never taught our kids what they need to know about things we need to be on guard for - the issue of readiness, because we are supposed to be tough enough without education. We aren’t
The sooner we understand and accept certain facts about us; the sooner we can stop living according to myths and lies. There is a reason why we fail year after year to improve our society. We don’t face the inconvenient truths and we sweep the wrong issues under the rug, because we lack the courage to face up to those who have detached from Natural Laws.
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