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Political Trust
Topic Started: Mar 12 2007, 12:17 AM (415 Views)
Nanos
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I wonder how one develops this..

I see a difficulty that the uneducated/stupid poor suffer from, and I cannot myself see an easy solution, the difficulty they face, is one of political trust, I'll explain;

If they meet a man who says he can help them, how do they decide to trust them ?

An intelligent/educated man will listen to their argument and decide from what they say, if their plans make sense, and follow him, or vote him into office.

But your public masses, can only understand as far as the words he speaks to help them, and do not see what the rest of his words mean, he could speak the truth, or he like many others, could be lying and trying to trick them.

How do they decide...

I only see myself, that they decide based on the mans own history, if the man is already great and powerful (perhaps a religious figure even..), has great wealth, then he must know of what he speaks, and thus people will follow him.

But, if he is not, if he is intelligent, but poor like themselves, and has yet to reach greatness, how would such a man convince the masses that he has the answers they seek ?
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Communism
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An interesting concept there Nanos.

Although intelligent people listen to the argument and make a decision based on that, I do believe looking back into their history is necessary.

History can tell us much about a persons ability, although with the way things are history can also just be another bunch of lies.

Obviously media can swing things in any direction it so wishes thus making it hard to know what to believe.

I personally believe the only way you can trust the leader is to actually get to know him on a personal level.

Obviously this being totally irrational solution for any leader, it begs the question how does one get to know these leaders on that level?

To answer your question though, How can a poor normal person come to lead?

There are many examples in history of leaders such as this being listened to and followed.

The best way for this leader to gain "power" or popularity or trust, is to understand the plight of the normal man.

If your message is strong enough it will get out and if you can explain and get people to understand what your solutions for their problems are, they will trust you.

There hardest thing to do is to explain your ideas to any man, one needs to accomplish this skill to truly lead.

If people don't understand your point it shouldn't be that they are incapable of doing so, but instead it should be that you are unable to explain your point well enough.

To do this one must completely understand there own views and solutions and perhaps writing them out in note form and asking for opinions on them.

There have been many examples of people becoming leaders because they fought for the normal day to day problems of the working man.

We are always dealing with people with little to no knowledge of the world around them, we must find ways to communicate the knowledge to them, until such time that the education system does not fail them and they are able to understand and create there own solutions.

A leader must understand how to reach all people, and not with complicated, confusing explanations but plain old solutions and ideas and to pass them to the people in ways that they will understand and completely comprehend.

Although the problem still remains that being of prejudice against people with no proof of there skills, I do believe one must prove themselves worthy of leading before being elected to do so.

Perhaps doing this on a smaller scale, in any form possible will convince them of this.

How can people be expected to believe a person with no past of leadership, its truly asking to much from a person.

Trust must be earned.

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Klagis
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Apr 16 2009, 02:16 PM
There hardest thing to do is to explain your ideas to any man, one needs to accomplish this skill to truly lead.

If people don't understand your point it shouldn't be that they are incapable of doing so, but instead it should be that you are unable to explain your point well enough.

To do this one must completely understand there own views and solutions and perhaps writing them out in note form and asking for opinions on them.

There have been many examples of people becoming leaders because they fought for the normal day to day problems of the working man.

We are always dealing with people with little to no knowledge of the world around them, we must find ways to communicate the knowledge to them, until such time that the education system does not fail them and they are able to understand and create there own solutions.

A leader must understand how to reach all people, and not with complicated, confusing explanations but plain old solutions and ideas and to pass them to the people in ways that they will understand and completely comprehend.

Although the problem still remains that being of prejudice against people with no proof of there skills, I do believe one must prove themselves worthy of leading before being elected to do so.

Perhaps doing this on a smaller scale, in any form possible will convince them of this.

How can people be expected to believe a person with no past of leadership, its truly asking to much from a person.

Trust must be earned.

That is exactly what I fear we will not be able to accomplish, I have a friend who I see most Saturdays and he has all these plans about improving society and if he ruled (the city, or country or world) all the things he could do to improve it. but alas he does not posses this ability to go out and explain his ideas to anyone and get them to believe in him and follow him. He just sits(maybe he stands) and brainstorms all these ideas and then goes oh shit I'm going to go build a garden see you later
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Communism
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Those kind of people might have good ideas but it takes a lot more to be a good leader.

Hard to find a combination of the two.

Oh well...the world is doomed... :)
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Nanos
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I imagine it would be benefical to get such a person chatting with others, perhaps joining a forum for example :-)


I think having been poor for a long time in my life (Not always, at the beginning my world was a wealth one, so I did get to see what the other side of the coin was like.) it has given me a great understanding of the plight of the poor and what they really need.

As such, often when I talk to people about a better world, I keep it simple with things like low cost housing, jobs and low crime.
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