Dimensionally Barrett

Trying to get a perspective/John Barrett It’s not personal, unless we let it be: dealing with the political scene from a Buddhist perspective Today, the President took another step toward authoritarianism by declaring via Tweetthat he has absolute power to pardon himself . Let’s stop there for a minute. He followed this with additional words that rendered his whole tweet somewhat silly. What I want to examine, for the moment, is this idea that our President believes he has absolute power to do something. He does not, but this won’t stop him from saying he does and acting as if he does. What makes this pronouncement extremely problematic, if not outright dangerous, is that the assumption of any absolute in leadership capability paves a path to corruption and, well, dictatorship. I’m not going to weigh in right now on the administration in great detail; I’ll save that for later. What I do want to look at are the consequences of personalizing enmity against a person or pers...