I enjoyed Bill Barnhart`s Jan. 26 review of the book, ”Lincoln on Leadership.”
He touched on an issue that I`ve wondered about for about 40 years. How much would the world lose if the psychologists had their way and reduced everybody to a bland normality?
It seems to me that most of the people who have made the greatest contributions to our total society-however obnoxious they were to their immediate associates-had personalities that the most junior, beginning social worker would immediately classify as dysfunctional.
I wonder how much of our current political problems result from a weird insistence that all our elected officials must be ideal spouses-parents-suburbanites-Rotarians?
We seem to insist on electing the dead norm of an obsolete and vanished ideal, and then feel gypped when they don`t turn out to be exceptional leaders.
