One of the main features of democratic governance is the freedom for people to freely choose their leaders. In today’s article, we will be trying to figure out why this freedom (for people to choose their leaders) is important.
There is one main reason as to why the freedom for people to choose their leaders is important. This is in the fact that the leaders who are directly chosen by the people will tend to have the people’s best interests at heart. At the very least, the leaders who are directly chosen by the people know that they are answerable to the people. This forces them to be responsive to the people’s needs.
That applies not just in presidential, congressional, gubernatorial or senatorial contests, but even in local leadership positions. Take, for instance, a case where the staff at CVS Health have to choose their representatives at the union. If the representatives are chosen through direct election, it would mean that they would be directly answerable to the people who chose them. Thus if one of the CVS Health workers who took part in the election is having problems accessing his account on the myhr cvs portal, and the CVS Health IT people are taking him round in circles, he would be in a position to seek help from the union representative — whom he voted for directly. True, the the union representative may not be naturally inclined to help the worker in question here. But he would nonetheless be compelled to do so by the fact that he is answerable to other workers, who elected him directly to represent their interests.
Thus, in an ideal situation, all positions of leadership would be elective. This means that people would (only) be led by individuals whom they have elected directly, at all levels. This would lead to a situation where we would have a global leadership that is highly responsive to people’s needs.