The Biggest Rogue Is The One We Are Last To Recognise

The world is full of leaders
who when their enemies fail
blame the enemies for their failure,
as if the leader has either done nothing,
or had done nothing to cause the downfall
of another. Their leadership was omniscient
-proof of how perfect they always were. 

Such partisan presentations of leadership
and power are now so routine and protected
from all media enquiry about what makes
the leadership tick, they make being a sceptic
a necessary sign for showing intelligence.

There the allies of the surviving enemies
prove stronger when they act together,
in league with each other, against the leader
who cannot recognise how rogue he's become.   

'Can't Happen Here'

is a line that often stops people
doing what they know is right,
where the speaker who is speaking,
then and for a long time after,
'seems right' though they are not.

For some the speaker who is speaking now
seems to be speaking for all of history
for the rest the point of history is to change it.

Other, different, places are available
and people will find the ways of finding them
and making them more possible for sharing.

Triumphalists,

and absoultist leaders,
never get what they want
but make what they get
seem like the triumph
they win for those they lead.