“There
is a tacit understanding that in exchange for preferential treatment,
leaders are the first line of defense against threats to
their
people. In the world of business, however, that social contract is
breached when leaders sacrifice those in their care to preserve their
own benefits and privileges.
(The
leadership misconception), Simon Sinek.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonsinek_the-leadership-misconception-activity-6775535083609714688-thew).
What that summary of Sinek's video did not include was that it is to
political leadership - not just business leadership - where his
interesting exposition applies most according to the video referenced
in the link cited above
(see the complete original text and its translation at
https://tinyurl.com/2bb7z3yn).
Let's see part of it:
“There are certain perks to being higher in the hierarchy which is why we all wanna move up. So anyway, we assess that someone’s alpha to us, and we voluntarily step back and allow our alphas to eat first. Our alphas get first choice of meat and first choice of mate. Though I may not get to eat first. I get guaranteed food and I don’t get an elbow in the face, good system. However, the group is not stupid. The group doesn’t give all of those perks to our alphas for free. There’s a deep-seated social contract, there’s an expectation that when danger threatens the tribe, it’s the person who’s actually stronger, actually smarter, actually better fed, who’s gonna rush towards the danger to protect us. We’re not stupid. This is why we take care of our alphas because our alphas have a responsibility to take care of us. …. Because, like I said, the responsibility of leaders is to protect their people. And if you protect us and we feel safe, then we’re totally okay with you getting all those perks. But it’s a balanced equation. And so this is the anthropology of leaders. We are a hierarchical species, there’s no avoiding it, but there is a responsibility in that hierarchy”.
What this social researcher describes applies in full force to the Venezuelan situation, the political leadership and the people, which we generically call civil society. We have allowed these people for many years to manage the destiny of the country and when things got bad, we expected them to step forward and "run towards danger to protect us". But that did not happen; on the contrary, they allied themselves with the enemy. Here there was no balanced situation, the political leadership separated itself from the people to the point that they had to invent a union "a juro" with the civil society in order to continue appearing in the political arena with certain legitimacy. And that cannot be done at the risk of losing the rest, because in the end it is just another deception. Now they no longer represent anything...
As I mentioned when it happened, already three years ago, just in March 2018, at the time of the birth of what was called Frente Amplio: "I want to make something clear: civil society can be called by anyone-even the MUD-, it can even be self-convened, and certainly it is necessary to do so at this critical time in the country. But from there to a manipulation of disguised factors of the MUD to later use that act in the UCV for the refreshing of those that persistently have led us to failure, trying to make "civil society forget" the recent past, going "all together "To the rescue of the country, it is asking too much. If we let that happen, then we let the dead pass, we let go of the betrayal of the 16J, we let go the failure of those factors that insist on a solution that aims to validate the Nicolas Maduro regime through elections. That is unacceptable..." (see Two acts, the same purpose: the re-launching of the MUD, en https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/two-acts-same-purpose-re-launching-of.html).
What has happened in these three years since the birth of this new version of the MUD? Recently they had the nerve to appear at the meeting with the American Ambassador of Venezuela in Bogota "representing the civil society", when what they have done is to freeze any initiative coming from the non-political sectors of the real Venezuelan opposition, represented by its natural leaders, in a so-called "Frente Amplio" that has not represented anyone outside the same parties that created it, serving as a figurehead to supposedly include the civil society in the persistent calls of the politicians of the official opposition to elections with the incumbent regime, ignoring olympically the pronouncement of the Venezuelan people in the Popular Consultation.
And how did I end the aforementioned note before the creation of this supposedly "united" civil society representation with the G4 parties? With the following statement: the position of the National Constituent Alliance-ANCO remains unperturbed and consistent with the official position already expressed by the Catholic Church:"... that civil society carry out a consultation to indicate the direction it wishes to take to the nation as foreseen in our Magna Carta (cf. Art. 71)" (n. 6). It is the people themselves, and not a spurious instance that puts things in their right place”. (see in Spanish Exhortación Pastoral “Dios Consolará a su Pueblo” del 12 de Enero de 2018, https://conferenciaepiscopalvenezolana.com/downloads/exhortacion-dios-consolara-a-su-pueblo). This only translates into our only and categorical affirmation to Venezuelan civil society: That the Venezuelan people decide.
And thank God the Venezuelan people decided 3 years later. From the civil society we achieved that the Venezuelan people demanded in a Popular Consultation in December 2020 that the elections be held after Maduro and his regime cease the usurpation of power in Venezuela. This is already a binding popular mandate, and surpasses any decision of the parties and their leaders because the Venezuelan people have already decided.
Now there is no political "representation" that can say otherwise. What is left is for the legitimate representation of the sectors of that civil society and the Venezuelan people that participated in that consultation, to enforce it and fulfill the mandate of the people, because the political leadership violated that "deeply rooted social contract" mentioned by Sinek, betraying the political responsibility it had with us to run towards danger to protect us from a criminal corporation that is usurping power in Venezuela. Society had no other way but to take the problem into its own hands, lacking now the organized actions to come so that what the people decided is fulfilled. That is why we are now building a Pact for Constitutional Restoration. We hope then that the International Community will understand this betrayal and stop believing the stories of this spurious "representation" that has done us so much harm, paying attention to what the people decided in the Popular Consultation...
Caracas, March 24, 2021
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