A great disappointment
A simple definition
of integrity as offered by Google is the quality of being honest and having
strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
Where we find
leadership wanting in honesty, trustworthiness and truth, we lose our confidence
in the people to the point that their leadership becomes untenable.
A damaged relationship
In a democracy,
those who lead have responsibilities that derive from the consent of their
electors, there is trust reposed in the elected to act in the best interest of
all with fairness, truth, justice and principle.
We damage this
dynamic irreparably if in the face of manifest wrongdoing, those we expect to
know different acquiesce, condone, tolerate and excuse the reprehensible
without shame or embarrassment.
An embarrassment of atrocities
A leadership unable
to react with contrition and take reparative steps out of embarrassing actions
of their cohort have taken licence to act with impunity.
They have become
wayward, lascivious and debauched, reprobates beyond redemption whose end like
history told many times before is utter destruction because the instruments of
accountability that could have checked their excesses is too compromised to
moderate anything they do.
What gives?
This is the story
of many lands to which we owe allegiance, and if we are to rid ourselves of the
unconscionable grip of the kakistocracy that holds sway like a swarm of locusts
over our fields of grain, we must give voice to the need for truth, probity and
justice.
Many events we have
read in the news recently point to the moral bankruptcy of those we trust; we
can only wonder what to do to rescue this atrocious set of circumstances.
We have to think
about what this means for us as country, as a people and for the future.
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