Corrosion of Public Respect

When did the obligation of all individuals and organizations to be ACCOUNTABLE become obsolete?

 Accountability, responsibility, answerability, culpability....all words which increasingly are being ignored and forgotten as obligations in our role as members of society.

 We have largely become a society of "followers", led by individuals who feel no obligation nor any willingness to accept responsibility, practice accountability, and who avoid being answerable to the citizenship.  
These "individuals", that I will refer to loosely as " leaders", who determine the curriculum and methods of educating our children, who manage and guide the companies which employ our workforce, and who lead our government and determine the policies/budgets that will drive our lifestyles, are, for the most part,  failing in meeting their basic responsibilities.

We see examples every day of ethical and moral abuse in our government, in business, in our cities, in our schools, and in our neighborhoods.  

We view daily accounts of events and activities reported in all forms of media that reveal failures by our leadership to be responsible for what they do and to provide satisfactory reason for their actions.

But let's stop right there......

It is our role as "followers", as "spectators", as "citizens", however you want to categorize us... to hold our leaders ACCOUNTABLE.
That is our responsibility as members of society to demand accountability and to ensure that culpability is determined, properly answered, and, in some cases, legally prosecuted.

We must fulfill our responsibility to our families, friends, and society to hold our educational leaders, business leaders, and government leaders accountable for their decisions/actions/inaction.  Accepting outcomes, accepting mediocrity, accepting deceit, accepting failure without holding leadership answerable is unacceptable.  Yet we are doing this daily.  

We have choices.  We possess the ability to make change. 

Our Vote in elections can and will affect change.  Our vote to not accept poor education results will affect change.  Our choice to not consume products and services will affect change.

We can not continue down this path we are currently headed.  Change must occur now.

ACCOUNTABILITY must again be the priority.