>>6211

Thanks! I actually think you did a better job of describing my thoughts on the subject than I did. And you are right, most of my examples weren't great, I definitely agree the people I pointed out as being decisive leaders are not without flaw. I merely wanted to make the comparison: that even deeply-flawed leaders with a vision and a mandate often outperform committee or consensus based decisions making structures. I certainly don't intend to suggest that any of these people are "good people" from a moral standpoint, though what morality even consists of is of course up for debate.

Like I said before, I don't think of my views of fascist, but words are just words and if someone wants to think of it that way who am I to judge. I just think it's better to be more verbose and descriptive when talking about difficult subjects like this, and to steer clear from terminology which is highly infected with preexisting conceptions which ends up limiting communication rather than being a mechanism for it. Fascism is one of those terms.