For oldline Protestant denominations this has resulted in decades of dizzying decline
as leadership elites, styling themselves as «prophetic,» have worked, it seems almost deliberately, to alienate the general membership.
These new organizations and new alliances have been steadily incorporated into Republican and
Democratic leadership elites, and from there into voter alignments.
And the politics of the centenary have awakened an interest in regional crises, the failure of conflict resolution and the responsibility
of leadership elites.
He called on the leaders to sustain the fight against corruption, noting that studies had shown that
the leadership elite had been forming alliance with the economic elite, and the traditional rulers to perpetuate themselves in power.
The lessons of Brexit, Trump, Bernie Sanders, and of global popular outbursts is that
the leadership elites have not been listening.