Something in today’s news caught my attention.
Prime Minister Hatoyama is struggling over the relocation of the US military’s Futenma base, and the opposition LDP leader made this comment:
“At this stage, with things this deadlocked, there’s nothing to do but step down.”
The kind of line you hear all the time, but something about it nagged at me.
“And what would you do?”
At work, at social gatherings — in any situation where things need to move forward, the person driving it has a hard job.
Meanwhile, there’s always someone on the sidelines throwing criticism. It’s much easier to criticize than to lead.
If you’re going to question someone’s approach, show us what you’d do instead. If I were in charge, I’d do it this way. That kind of thing.
This applies not just to the LDP, but to work and personal life too.
The Futenma relocation in particular — it’s obviously not something anyone can do easily.
It overlapped with things I see in everyday life, so I pulled out the politics topic for the first time in a while.