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%COMMUNITY LEADER POWER CONTROL ADDICT DICTATOR WAR 920728

     When through election,  evolution,  or military take-
over the  governmental powers in a family,   organization,
religion,  institution,  city,  state or nation falls into
the  hands  of a collection of addictive persons  who  are
preoccupied with being in control, with who is in control,
and  with  how to maintain control;  then the  people  are
prone  to  be  dominated by  a dictatorial rule  which  is
either   brutally  overt---or  subtly  covert.   In  overt
dictatorships  there is at least honesty about the use  of
violent force to retain power  for  self-serving purposes.
In paternalistic dictatorships  there  is  an  attempt  to
justify the dictatorship  in terms of benevolent purposes.
In  both instances there is an acknowledged  dictatorship;
and there is no pretense of democratic rule.

     When  a  "democratic"  society has become  an  addict
there  may  be  no attempt to  justify  the  dictatorship;
because  by  means  of  collusive  games  of  mutual  self
deception none of the people with  power acknowledge  that
there  is a  dictatorship.  In such situations many of the
citizens    play   complementary   collusive   games    of
codependence which are on the flip side of the coin of the
collusive games of addiction.

     Addictive  people cannot be trusted because they take
for  granted  that dishonesty is a legitimate tool  to  be
used in gaining and retaining control.   Addictive  people
should  not be trusted with governmental  authority,   for
they  are  likely to seek to acquire and retain  more  and
more power to control;  and move toward  dictatorial  rule
in covert moves which not even they fully recognize.

     Codependent people cannot be trusted because they buy
into  the  collusive games of mutual self deception  which
addictive  people are playing;  to try to benefit from the
power  which  they  see  addicts as able  to  bestow  upon
subservient supporters. Codependent people play supportive
roles to addictive people as they gain power to govern and
dictate,   in  their  moves  toward  an  overt  or  covert
dictatorship.

     Addictive  people  and codependent people  cannot  be
trusted  with  governmental  authority because  they  play
their  collusive games on the two sides of one coin;   the
coin of addiction/codependence.  They need each  other  to
survive;  at least temporarily.  Their side of the coin is
incomplete  without the game being played on the  opposite
side. The games played on both sides conceal the nature of
the  games  played on both sides;  for dishonesty  is  the
essence of the games.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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