2007 has been a year of lessons.

I think what lerchy* said today really surprised me.
Then again, it wasn't much of a surprise.

It wasn't a surprise because that opinion she expressed is scarcely new.
It had been mine,
and I'd long suspected, it'd belonged to more.

Looking back now, I'm really thankful for her honesty.
Surely those thoughts have long been pacing about in our minds for a very long time.
And surely, more than a handful have struggled with barring them in.
A handful?
Let me try that again.
Afterall, a handful is an awful lot more, when you're talking about a pool of a dozen people.
So most of us were thinking it.

There were the occasional exchange of glances between common victims,
the rare snide remarks,
but all pointed to a single ticking time-bomb.
I suppose we were all just waiting.
Waiting, for the right time.
Or rather, for the time to pass so that the stakes are no longer as high.

So what's my point here?
Here's the perfect case study.
To cut the long story short and serve up the moral of the story in bite-size pieces,
here it is:

Autocracy, rarely, and almost never works in a peer-based system.
More than anything else,
even if it gets things going,
the danger of backslash will hang over everyone's heads like latent heat,
and you'll never truly win the hearts of your people.

Therein lies the reason behind an unnecessarily snafued term
in office.
We'll do well to learn from this mistake.