Thread by @melvinnasasira

People who support M7 do not do so logically. No matter how bad he gets, how astray he leads this country, they'd still love and support him. When someone's decision is not based on reason but rather on feelings, nothing can change their mind. Thread.

People who still support M7 love him with all his violence and dishonesty. It's a perfect love story of loving someone despite their flaws. When you love someone, you are usually told to throw out logic and think with the heart. You can't change wuch people's minds.

For them it's not about what's good for this country logically. They'll say M7 is the perfect person for Uganda even though logically his stay in power is leading this country to its grave. Its like how a person in an abusive relationship stays no matter how bad the abuse gets.

Friends keep advising the person to leave but the person keeps seeing the partner as a lover who's just flawed. They think the partner will change & be better. Usually, in such scenarios, the victim of abuse focuses on the few good things their partner does & ignores the abuse.

It's not uncommon to hear M7 lovers saying it's the people he hires who are bad. During the middle of the #FreeBobiWine protests recently, someone was saying M7 doesn't endorse police brutality even though he has used it severally to gain political advantage.

A lover's mind can't process the negative things their person does. If it accidentally does, it creates a scapegoat to keep the person clear of anything that taint the image of that person in the lover's mind.

It's not uncommon to hear M7 lovers cheering on the armed forces as they brutalize opposition candidates and their supporters. To them, these are just hooligans, thieves trying to distabilize the country. That's just something they make up to keep their image of M7 untainted.

If they were to use logic and reason, they'd see the unfortunate truth that M7 is actually using police brutality to scare off his opponents and their supporters. M7 loves violence and he sadly knows how to be violent. He's good at it. He knows how to win with violence.

When he lost an election in 1980, he didn't think of any other solution to wash off his shame. He chose what he loves the most. Violence. 6 years later, he was swearing in as president. To him, violence doesn't disappoint.

When Besigye rose to fame, M7 handled him with violence. The man was imprisoned without charges countless times just to kill his resolve. He was treated like a thief.

Bobi Wine is going through the same thing. M7 knows violence will win in the end. I hope this time he's wrong.

So, the narrative that M7 doesn't endorse brutality of his opponents and their supporters is not logical. Like we have seen, he has used this almost all his life. He can't win without using violence and brutality.

Nedda, you point out where he won without brutalizing his opponents. Of course his presidency of the scripture union and debating society at Ntare do not work. I'm not even sure these positions were voted for. Most of these used to to be appointed positions bu the staff🤣.

So, as proponents of regime change, we have a big and difficult task to do to convince our fellow Ugandans that the man they're in love with is not good for them and for everyone in the country. We have to awaken their logic and reason so they can see things the way they are.

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