Saw Gov O'Malley today

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10. Very well put, Gen.

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O'Malley doesn't want to lead a rebellion. He wants to fix what's not working. Psychologically speaking, he has a democratic rather than authoritarian personality. He doesn't want "followers"; he wants a "team."

Authoritarian personalities tell people what to do or believe. They have a "vertical" or "top down" approach to human relations. Democratic personalities engage in the give and take of dialogue and believe in working together to achieve common goals. They have a "horizontal" approach to human relations.

Authoritarian personalities make good demagogues. Democratic personalities work well with others and get things done with cooperative strategies.

Good employers and leaders of every kind realize that democratic strategies, in the end, work better than authoritarian strategies.

Put simply, democracy as a way of life, not just a political system, works. We just have to try using it now and then.

ETA: O'Malley has used the metaphor of leading a band to describe how many different individual points of view work together like different instruments to produce social or political harmony.