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We are constantly told that certain people are indispensable.
That prosecuting the powerful would destabilize markets.
That removing leaders would cause chaos.
That institutions would crumble.
But look around.
How many people have been replaced in ordinary jobs in the last decade alone?
CEOs resign.
Police chiefs are removed.
Judges retire.
Senators lose elections.
Executives are fired.
Administrations change.
Companies do not evaporate when leadership changes.
Cities do not disappear when mayors are voted out.
Agencies do not dissolve when directors are replaced.
No one is irreplaceable.
No office is sacred.
History proves this repeatedly. Governments have collapsed under corruption and mismanagement — and people have reorganized. Power vacuums are filled. Structures are rebuilt. Leadership is replaced.
What destabilizes nations is not accountability.
What destabilizes nations is corruption protected out of fear.
The argument that “we cannot hold them accountable because the system might fall” is backwards.
If the system cannot survive accountability, it is already broken.
And if thousands of ordinary workers can be replaced every year without ceremony, the idea that certain elites must remain untouched for the sake of stability is not governance.
It is protectionism.