In an interview with a Tea Party founding member, there is this quote on what to do with certain celebrity figures trying to associate themselves:

She, like many Tea Party members, resists the idea of a Tea Party leader — “there are a thousand leaders,” she says.

Glenn Beck? “He can be a Tea Partier, but it’s not like the movement bends to him.”

Sarah Palin? She will have to campaign on Tea Party ideas if she wants Tea Party support, Ms. Carender said, adding, “And if she were elected, she’d have to govern on those principles or be fired.”

That’s the spirit! Robert the Bruce would have understood, since his supporters had the same opinion:
—-Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.—

http://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html#5988595195056734658
 
My own comments. Grassroots is simply an extension of alpha leadership. We have gotten to the point where representatives don’t truly represent or preserve the interests of their people. Because their people aren’t theirs. And the politicians owe their survival and power more to lobbyists and special interests than anything else. On the other hand, many people and cities owe their survival to lobbyists, con men, Leftist welfare, and government benefits, so it’s not like they need to pledge their power to their representative to get the goods.
 
Real alpha leadership is about taking care of your own people. Closest ideal form would be US military leaders in combat. It’s why they don’t become non-entities when veterans return to the economy. Those skills and temperaments are vital and also rare.
 
It’s easy to become a Leftist goon and cultist and follow the dictates of the party line or megalomaniacal cultist leader, but that’s because people don’t have confidence in themselves. And they don’t have that confidence because their leaders suck. Their leaders take the power of the people and use it to buy up luxuries for themselves and their friends, like Obama does, like Reid does, like Pelosi does. Instead of booting these leaders out, the people pretend they are slaves and thus need the government dole. They have convinced themselves that no better leader is available to them.
 
 
In reality, there are scores of real leaders in America. The Marines are not atypical in producing leadership qualities on an American standard. But people are scared of ditching their leader. They’re scared of feeling powerless, because they haven’t ever truly wielded their own power. They just go along with the flow, like good little sheep. And when physical threats appear, they go running to Mama.
Your post, Book, delineates this all important divide between real leaders, represented in real men, and weak arse followers, the enemies of real men. Only an insecure leader like Obama, who knows he can’t protect everyone, starts thinking about cashing out on the people, sacrificing them to their enemies, in order to buy immunity. Only insecure people attack others because of their own fears and doubts, ala Islam.
 

Dems/Leftists/MSM claim that:
One American soldier out of control = national policy of savagery
Thousands upon thousands of rapes and murders by Muslims around the world = American racism and xenophobia

Yeah, Americans can buy that! Sheesh!

A good and necessary point, Book. Islam hates humans, and makes no bones about it. There is not a scintilla of love between Allah and the creations It so disdains. Why anybody would try to take solace in such an arid teaching, other than out of fear or despair, eludes me.