Among the most important services a state provides to its people (if it is indeed a welfare state, as those governing us claim) are healthcare, education, and security.
Let’s start with the healthcare system…
The healthcare system has collapsed. How can anyone get proper service from any healthcare center? To put it plainly, the state is not protecting public health or providing free healthcare to the public. The system is shifting toward the private sector with each passing day, and our entrepreneurs are aware of this! In fact, if we were being uncharitable, we might say, “Public healthcare is being shifted to the private sector by the state. Are those who fail to fix the system helping this happen?” But let’s not give up on good intentions just yet…
The same problems can be found in our education system… Citizens with average incomes, fed up with the Education Ministry’s ineffectiveness, teachers’ strikes, and the endless shortcomings, are forced to send their children to private schools. Once again, the public is being driven to the private sector by the state, this time to educate their children. Those who fail to resolve these problems are helping this happen, whether knowingly or not. The public loses out under this arrangement, while entrepreneurs benefit.
As for security, thankfully, the system’s wheels are not entirely tied to politics. Because if they were, we’d be in a terrible state… Of course there are problems, but at least it is an institution people trust.
I won’t even get into the economy, agriculture, the environment, tourism, and so on… Whichever end you grab, it falls apart in your hands…
But, as the famous physicist Stephen Hawking also said, “As long as we are breathing, there is hope.” I approach the issue in that spirit and believe that “not losing hope should be our most important source of support at this point”…
Look at the histories of countries; you will see that leaders have generally emerged when countries or societies were at an impasse, unable to find a way forward, or in times of war.
When I think about our country’s problems, I see that the conditions are very much in place for someone to become a “leader/hero.”
The country’s problems have reached such a point that anyone who makes a change aimed at bringing about even the slightest improvement would almost be elevated by the public to the status of a leader and/or hero.
With that in mind, those governing the country should be asked this question: “Does anyone among you want to be a leader/hero?”