Leaders should start leading by example

 In Kenya, there is a huge disconnect between the rhetoric of leaders and the expected directive action. 

It will be a long time before the concept of democracy falls out of fashion, that is, if it ever will. America, the greatest exemplar of this ideal, under President Donald Trump, has all but eviscerated it. But still, it remains the best system of governance by far. The dust is settling after the unprecedented invasion, by hooligans, of the Capitol building in an undemocratic attempt to stop the US Congress from validating Joe Biden’s presidency.

It is clear that America is wounded. The ramifications of last week’s invasion will extend to the farthest reaches of the earth. Of these, none will be worse than the loss of image as the world’s beacon of democracy. Staff-writer Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic says, “The allure of democracy was America’s best asset abroad.” She further says, “by far the most important weapon that the United States of America has ever wielded - in defence of democracy, in defence of political liberty, in defence of universal rights, in defence of the rule of law - was the power of example”.