Complaining About Leadership Failure

If the best that can be brought against someone complaining of a failure in leadership is to ask the complainant to go and do better, then there's a gap in the discourse that has been left unattended.

In the very idea of leadership is implied the fact that we can't all do it ourselves. Therefore, a few, representative of our embodied goals, are picked to coalesce our strengths and work towards the realisation of common ends. The criteria for this "picking" often involves the concession that the individuals so picked represent the best among us suited for the purposes of attainment of said goals. This also carries with it the implied contract that given the peculiarities of the situation, some preferences will be accorded to these reps such as will make their tasks not too burdensome, so that certain luxuries are allowed them at the expense of those for whom they work; those they serve.

Within this framework, the majority go about their lives earning an honest living and keeping their side of the bargain in the expectation that it is reciprocated by the reps working for the common goal. When this majority infringe on the larger agreement, the laws of the land, they must submit themselves for the appropriate repercussions. All that is all good and well.

But, cue in the case here. These reps, with the bowler gentleman (yimu) at the helm, do anything but keep to the terms of this contract. They multiply the luxuries that accrue to them by means both unjust and illegal, arm-twist the legal justice system to do their bidding, obfuscate the essence of leadership so badly that when they distribute the crumbs of peanuts that fall off their tables to a few anointed acolytes, the latter swarm the media with news of how this or that wolf of our politics is "TRYING", while they simply cannot even keep to the singular dictate of the Constitution which charges them to look to the WELFARE and SECURITY of the citizens.

All these while, the majority does not relent in keeping their own side of the bargain. The acute lack of charismatic leadership becomes so stark, the blind see it. And as a result, some other-sighted individuals, who can no longer keep quiet because of the ringing in their ears from the disturbance of an informed conscience, decide to speak out, calling a spade its given name. They also engage in fora that seeks some corrective measures to stem the tide of such brigandage, measures they don't intend to currently publicise. Plus, they have intentions to be more proactive should the means become available.

It is imperceptibly benumbing to them to see others who are as victims as they are ask them to correct the malaise by doing, on their own, what should be the government's task ab initio. Because they raised their voices to call out a perceived irresponsibility on the part of the government, the next best thing to do is to ask them to go do it themselves? So, why was the government there in the first place? Why do we have to run the most expensive government in the world, by GDP ratio, if it was as easy as it comes to do this stuff ourselves?

As I began, however good intentioned we get, we can't do this all as individuals. We'd so expertly complicate matters if we even attempt it. So, it is a necessary duty that the government is set up to provide and we do what it takes to get them do it. But not passively. We take turns to watch them and make sure that, as our employees, they ain't sleeping on the job nor blowing away our good dough playing Candy Crush while miscreants run off with huge chunks of the Company in a trail of blood.

The language in which that watchful Enterprise is ensured now depends on different variables such as the temperament of the person speaking at the time and the enormity of the malfeasance the one speaking is addressing.

And, if the "picked" can't stand the heat, he or she shouldn't be so clueless to fail to realise that "no bi by force to govern". He or she should honourably leave at any time or be courteous enough to those being denied appropriate leadership and not present himself or herself for the next round of "pickings" no matter how many orchestrated signatures he collects begging him to continue.