The culture in which they operate creates reacting instead of acting. When you become paranoid about “making a mistake” or offending or creating a situation for your superiors you react to information and this is where leadership and progress goes to die. Our president is a reactor to information and it explains his constant voting “present” on the many issues that he has and continues to vote present on. No one wants to be blamed or tagged with the bad stuff that actual leadership may bring.

This philosophy as I have said is where leadership goes to die and in so doing creates more and more levels of chaos, resentment and reaction and in time builds the inverted pyramid that becomes what they all serve and in the end is what will destroy us all.

Who wants to be the teacher today who reads their students “violent” story and did not report it. Their worst nightmare must be to be listening to the radio and hear their students name in connection with a mass shooting. Paranoia in the bureaucracy can make you nuts and so you go over and above what used to be sane behavior.