With leadership comes tremendous power, and with that responsibility and ultimately accountability. While leaders can make significant decisions that will have far-reaching implications on the people they lead, its jurisdiction should be used judiciously and with care.
It is simple to state the decision made is in the best interests of the masses when the decision has little benefit to most and the primary beneficiary is the leader or the few close to them. Language has other words that may aptly describe such individuals, of which ‘leader’ is not one.
When the reason for a decision is not widely understood nor welcomed by the people being led, with far-reaching consequences on a broader group, questioning the motives and values of such decision-makers is necessary and their reasons and capacity to lead.
‘Rulers’ is a term less used today, and we defer to the generic ‘leaders’ as the label, when in fact, it is self-motivated rulers who, as history has proven, are rarely correct. With power, we grant our trust to leaders, and those who make decisions to improve the situation for others justly are the ones we should follow and give permission to lead.
The rulers who repeatedly fail us, we must remove. No longer do they represent the will or good of the people. The ones who create falsehoods for their ego are not leaders.
We would like to believe that as humankind, we learn, yet we know that history has a habit of repetition.
As small as we are, we can stand up as one, put in place those people who are there to lead, and let us have no mercy for those who choose to rule. Let this significance apply to groups, organizations, communities, and nations, and be certain decisions are for the good of the people led.
