We all know them. They are known for good causes. But given the fact they are just animals, we should have or could expect animalistic behavior. So given the classical (common) morality, they all are failures because they sinned to a high degree.
One highly prominent editor-in-chief of some unnamed magazine proclaimed: “So we have experimented in the 20th century (meaning Nazism and communism), it costs us hundreds of millions of people dead and then we moved on!”
Two of those aforementioned (Havel and Mandela) were imprisoned in combinations of their morals and their possible aspirations after the regime they were fighting against fell (but we cannot precisely know that).
People made cults of their personalities and admired their characters which were flawed to a high degree.
I live in a very small town in the Bohemian part of the Czech Republic, where the late Václav Havel had a cottage nearby.
A lot of stuff about Havel’s adoration of alcohol has been circulating on the internet. But I have heard locals confirming those gossip. He had really been drinking to unconsciousness.
Not to mention he had been a womanizer, Havel truly was a humanist who had feelings for the poor and working class, understood social issues, and his orientation was far left (he disliked capitalist regimes back in the times).
I respect him as a dissident and loathe him as a politician. He promised not to restore capitalism, but it happened. The new regime would be more social than the previous (overall economically absolutely no, but the ill, criminals or people who live from governmental minimum payment are better on).
Shaking hands with the Soviet emperor, American presidents or the likes of Henry Kissinger makes him truly evil.
Fidel Castro remains a polarizing figure in Latin America, even though he was initially perceived as a barrier to USA influence. Adored, but he killed tens of thousands of people, had them imprisoned, and tortured.
Barack Obama had been a promise, that he would remove those lobbyists, start anew, be better, and cease wars. So finally, being loyal to those lobbyists that have appointed him, he was a failure. Los Angeles Times reads: “U.S. military forces have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.” Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, some of which remain in the consciousness of our beloved Barack.
Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned for an unimaginable long time, but his approach to the HIV/AIDS crisis, economic policies (he did not do enough to address the deep-rooted economic disparities inherited from apartheid) and was warm to many repressive regimes.
Che Guevara was a leftist hero but his crimes could not be bigger (executions, authoritarianism, made more countries unstable to so some degree, were homophobic and treated prisoners horribly).
John Fitzgerald Kennedy definitely had a cult of personality. He was all good. But the Bay of Pigs invasion, Vietnam war escalation, CIA covert operations, role in the assassination of foreign leaders, and relations with organized crime made him a common criminal the American presidents usually are.
Homo sapiens (including the politicians) are very prone to violence, wars, murders, and torture because they are just animals.
So what really connects these aforementioned gentlemen, only Barack Obama of them alive as in 2024? One and a single thing! Had had they more power (their country would be bigger), they would have killed millions!
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