Yes please, I will take in a refugee and
house them in my home. But also Lets be clear that it’s a collective
responsibility to look after the vulnerable fellow humans in extreme condition.
That collective responsibility has been delegated to the governments as the
body that represents our collective wishes. The failure of the government to
show resolve and strength demonstrates lack of leadership and efficacy.
Just how dire is Western leadership?
The greatest service to refugees of all
possible sources came from Victor Orban. His action on forcing refugees to
camps, stopping them from travelling and erecting border fence along with
comments like “Hungarians have the right to live without Muslims” galvanized
public support for refugees at a time when one of the main rhetoric of Western
governments is “immigration control”.
Civic activism and magnanimity forced Western governments to do
something.
Leadership has degenerated into public
management. Government has digressed to be only concerned with bureaucracy due
to a lack of visionary leadership. Almost everything in social life is produced
by rare but consequential shocks and changes; all the while almost everything
studied focuses on the “Normal” in tune with the populous temperament that tell
close to nothing. Democratic populism ignores the changing world, cannot handle
the, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. The nature of social phenomena can only be
understood in severe circumstance, not under the regular rosy glow of daily
life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does
on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases
and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.
Focusing on the “normal” means the
government is represented on most issues by the vocal part of the society that
includes the immigration debate. The anti immigration lobby happens to be
xenophobic which makes government policies sinister and particularly unfair on
the immigrants.
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