Joseph
you wrote:
“mdlevine, The leaders of these koifrim are reshoyim. It used to be the leaders and followers were as such. But now many of the followers were blindly born into it.”
The only difference between your opinion and my opinion is that in my opinion the current crop of leaders are the offspring of the previous crop of followers and perhaps offspring of some of the previous leaders. this makes the current leaders as blind as the followers – the classic “blind leading the blind” scenerio.