Back to square one?
Our politics is suffering from a sort of Sidr effect, thanks to our past political culture, based on utter indiscipline, external and internal. Today the political leadership is without a sense of direction. The entrenched effect has to be erased. Inside the parties [especially the two major ones], there are chaos and disintegration and terrible splits. It is too late for the released top leaders to create seamless internal bonds. The effects of the fallouts would linger for a long time. The voters feel unsure of the near future, not to speak of the long-term view.
During the current phase of political transformation, we have to unlearn more than we have to learn. Unlearning is a tough trial, personally, individually, and collectively. It involves change of mentality, approach and philosophy. If the approach be correct, then the details would fit in through fine-tuning. The core has to be right. It needs extraordinary leadership qualities. The running leadership culture is based on charisma and dynasty rules. It means that the leaders depend on the followers, and not the other way round. Sycophancy can never improve a society; and nepotism is a hidden virus.
The definitions of 'suffering' and 'sacrifice' look good on paper, but practicing it in daily life is tough. There are many examples from the lives of great leaders in human civilization through the ages. As toddlers, we have fallen many times, but refuse to learn or unlearn. It is sad [and inspiring] to read the history of old golden Bengal. In contrast, look at the plight of the Bengalese today. The spirit of 1971 struggle has been fritted away. We have to start from zero again -- thanks to whom and what?
Fake followers are in bereavement of headless parties. This is the view of the majority of the oppressed and suppressed voters (80 million of them).
We are stuck up with one major obstacle: we get the leaders we deserve!
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