Rule of Law? Rule of Man? Or Law of the Jungle?

You can take the pulse of a society by it’s infrastructure: it’s roads, schools, hospitals, courts, and leadership.

You can measure a society’s wealth. But the wealthy are a privileged class. Even in communist China, there are people who push around resources. They don’t use the term wealthy, at least not yet. But what else would you call it?

Looking at politicians, in office and running for office – ask yourself why are they there? Are they dictators, dupes, or democrats? Are they akin to gangsters taking what they can at gunpoint? Are they helping their friends at the expense of everyone else? Or are they building schools and hospitals (because children of the ghettos can grow up to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers and accountants).

Will they help everyone to a bigger slice of the pie by the ‘trickle-up theory’ making the pie bigger? Or will they help their friends to a bigger slice of the pie by making your slice of the pie smaller? Is this character a ‘yes-man’ or one who would surround himself or herself with yes-men? Does he/she value dissent? How does he/she react to criticism? Does he/she make decisions based on facts or make up the “facts” based on decisions?