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It has been said that these are the desirable, indeed required, qualities for anyone who seeks to take on a public leadership role.

But only so long as gravitas does not deteriorate into unanalysed bluster and discipline into targeted brutality.

Pray, who had more gravitas and discipline than Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini and their subsequent adulating satraps worldwide in the oppressive decades since?

And look where they got us and continue to so do.

Take a look back at the yield of our own decade or more of gravitas and discipline, and here is what you may see:

A cabbined, cribbed and confined democracy, a cronied economy, a strangulated fourth estate,........

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