I'm sure Lex does his best to persuade people to help fight the coming alien hordes...
You assume, without a doubt, that 1) these are actually Lex's motives and 2) that Lex should be this leader. I see no textual proof that Lex's motives are as altruistic or noble as you're presenting them here; they could very well be entirely self-serving. An army to do his bidding for only his ambitions, the world be damned. Lex has not shown viewers anything to the contrary. Moreover, given his instability and sociopathic tendencies, I don't think people should be helping him or allowing him to be the leader of these protective measures. Someone who is stable and not a sociopath who's casually torturing, exploiting, and imprisoning other people should be the leader and as Nora explained above (re: moral pragmatism and actually swaying people to your side using *reason*, while respecting their rights, and without brute force) if people are not swayed it's because Lex is entirely the wrong person to lead this and is going about it entirely the wronng way. You can't be tyrannical and sociopathic in your means and expect people to smile and just take it just because you tell them no, really, they should just blindly trust you.
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You assume, without a doubt, that 1) these are actually Lex's motives and 2) that Lex should be this leader. I see no textual proof that Lex's motives are as altruistic or noble as you're presenting them here; they could very well be entirely self-serving. An army to do his bidding for only his ambitions, the world be damned. Lex has not shown viewers anything to the contrary.
Moreover, given his instability and sociopathic tendencies, I don't think people should be helping him or allowing him to be the leader of these protective measures. Someone who is stable and not a sociopath who's casually torturing, exploiting, and imprisoning other people should be the leader and as Nora explained above (re: moral pragmatism and actually swaying people to your side using *reason*, while respecting their rights, and without brute force) if people are not swayed it's because Lex is entirely the wrong person to lead this and is going about it entirely the wronng way. You can't be tyrannical and sociopathic in your means and expect people to smile and just take it just because you tell them no, really, they should just blindly trust you.