Any President Who Failed, Failed Because Of One Thing

People go to the queue in the open air in the hope of electing a President to lead them but essentially learn their concerns and do something about those concerns.

When a president comes to power after the people have voted for the president, the president is surrounded by inner circle members who behave as though the one elected by the people belonged to his/her inner circle.

They block access to the president or his/her well-placed appointees thus denying people the opportunity of talking to them directly. The blockage denies the leader access to invaluable information helpful to the cause of government.

As the circle is continually drawn around the president, it isolates the president from the masses. Any leader who readily opens up to dignitaries but shuts the door on ordinary people is bound to fail in delivering the mandate and, consequently lose elections.

Security and protocol concerns are as important as access to the leader, they only have to trade off the two with respectable allowance to the people in whom popular sovereignty resides. The people can see through choreographies which may include public durbars in which a president undertakes a guided exchange of greetings instead of spontaneous engagement, mindful of security though.

When a president meets dignitaries and none of the ordinary people, or even the middle class, that president could easily lose elections. A president must not wait for others to decide for him regarding who to meet. He or she has his own scruples. Watch your unelected special assistants.