Topic: Corrupt leaders are made foolish people. - page 3. (Read 472 times)

That is the role of propaganda and political indoctrination, I think. You know to keep the corrupt leaders in power regardless of their merits, only being based on the power and the shady influence those leaders keep over people who are supposed to know better, for the sake of the future of their country...
Unfortunately, it is something common here in Latin America, where populism and literal brain washing have taken place in our countries. I have never been in Africa, but I guess it must not be very different from what one could find here.

Politics is a topic which unfortunately meritocracy is not as appreciated as It should be. I still believe there is hope for most countries in Africa, but it will take the personal growth of their people and a long period of time for them to self-reflex on their situation.

Based on the scenario that you are talking about, the third world countries are mostly suffering not because of the people, not the individual people but those institutions that oversee to the election of new government, that is where the fault is. If there is high level corruption within the electoral system, no matter the purity in the election or voting rightly, it will be manipulated at the top and that is at the collation centre. The umpire of elections need to be devoid of interest and bribe taking before the election will produce rightful candidates that are voted by the majority. So most times the people know the right candidate whether he is from minority or not and they turn out in mass to vote but at the dawn of the night the contrary result will be announced.

It is not the people that makes the leader. It is just selected few who organise the onslaught against the people through manipulation of election result and make the people to suffer and live in penury. The law and judiciary is also used to the favour of those who have been manipulated into power and no matter how brilliant the opposition lawyer is, he doesn't succeed to get the people's mandate back and that takes the people backwards until another election year. This is unfortunate and the reason some continent are still backwards, bad leadership is a bane to democracy.

Depending on how the electoral rules are designed, by choosing the "least evil" we are excluding those parties which may have good proposals, but we foresee that they won't win.

It's the case of, for example, a country where there are two leading candidates, one of them in the center and the other far-left or right. People would prefer to vote the center in order to make it more difficult for extremists to come to power, rather than voting a third party that has no chance of winning, but it was our favourite.

Yes I agree with you a lot.  There are many clans who vote an incompetent leader based on their clan to win.  And for five years he was subjected to various abuses.  A tribe or nation plays a major role in a corrupt leader coming to power.  But most of the general public believes in the sweetness of unqualified candidates and they are convinced that voting for this person will improve them.  So they all vote for the incompetent person but as a result a corrupt leader takes the seat and does not keep any of his promises.  It is really very sad and disappointing for the people.  Before the elections every leader tries to heal the people with their sweet language.  What else does the general public have the power to know what is inside the human mind?

In fact here we have people who create opportunities for corruption, leaders cannot do corruption at will but a section of common people want to corrupt with their help to make themselves more independent. Because of which the leaders get the opportunity to commit corruption. So I think that common people create the opportunity to do corruption. That's why our leaders took the opportunity. However, there are currently many countries where voting is not required or there is no need to elect a leader.

In almost all countries of the world, political figures are involved in corruption. Everything is done with money, and leaders take advantage of that opportunity.  Basically the leader creates a huge network where things like buying votes with money happen. There have also been instances where the common people are disenfranchised, corrupt leaders are elected without a vote by using power. Personally I have seen political figures in the South Asian region, when they hold political power, often build mountains of wealth for personal gain. In many cases, those in power use their influence to protect themselves and their associates from the consequences of their corrupt actions, even as they engage in misappropriation of public funds, bribery, embezzlement and other forms of corruption.

In many cases I cannot blame the people for producing corrupt leaders. Corrupt leaders build powerful terrorist, extortionist organizations to control their areas, and the common people living in those areas live like puppets in their fear.

I agree, mate. When all the political candidates running for positions in the government are corrupt and useless, the country is doomed. We have no choice but only to choose the “least evil” among the candidates. But when there is a candidate that is credible and capable of leading the country and we still don’t choose that candidate, the problem is in the people.

Of course we shouldn’t blame it all on the people. There are still many things to hold a corrupt candidate accountable for. Like maybe that candidate is spreading a lot of lies and misinformation that could have reached the masses and could have influenced their political decisions greatly.

A good leader can only lead when he or she is chosen by the people.

Yeah, choosing who to vote for because of stuff like ethnicity or religion sometimes means the people in charge don't feel like they gotta answer to voters as much.  But you still gotta think about everything going on and  if some groups keep getting left out or treated bad for a long time, it makes sense why they'd wanna vote for someone who comes from their group and might stick up for them.  That way those people can feel like they actually have a voice.

We have often seen how leaders who got into power because of backing from their tribe, sect or regional and ethnicities are the most corrupt ones because they knows that their people will vote for them regardless they do any good work or not. Look at African nations and even some Arab nations the reason why they are going through corruption and suffering is because people don't vote based on merit rather on personal relationship like sect, ethnicity or religion and then there comes countries like India and Pakistan where they win based on vote from majority community by instilling fear that minorities gonna rule them if not votes to power and next five years everyone suffers.

I would hold people accountable for being in an creating a corrupt leaders rather than the leaders themself.