Federal selection of leaders distorts how whole nations make their decisions

Evidence

In the worst of circumstances, these decisions are made behind closed doors by a select few—all too often, those few selected in some fashion by the federal government or some other vested interest. These decisions, however, in the case of most peoples, will affect the entire social and political fabric as well as the next set of decisions, the next forks in the road, whether on an individual level, a family level, or a community level. … The choices made over the past decades by the various Seminole leaders and their people on the reservation and in the Independent Traditional Seminole nation have led to distinctly different ways of living today. While they are all the same people, they are living in almost different worlds. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 183

Categorization

• XREF: Federal imposition of leadership ties into legal-system institutions chapters and the coercive-selection thread across colonial cases. — connects to: Federal services to tribes operate as bait-and-control like feeding livestock — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 216; Totalitarian hierarchy depends on top-down appointment, not elected authority — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2656

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian hierarchy depends on top-down appointment, not elected authority #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2656