Thread by @uMarhobane

People can't decide what CR is. Puppet or zealot?

At a personal level, he is a communist. And yet he is very comfortable cutting lucrative deals with major industry to secure a personal capital legacy.

His closest followers are progressives, internationalists and communists.

To understand this, understand Cicero's idea of a commonwealth - a political community with a common understanding of interests and identity, law and justice.

South Africa is not a commonwealth. It is a province within a global empire, and has no ethnic identity.

As an urbanised Venda, CR is without a natural ethnic base to draw from. Consequently he has to cut dozens of ever-changing deals with various factions of the political and economic elite.

So unlike Zuma or the Xhosa elite, his strategies are necessarily more multi-faceted.

He partners with think-tanks to consolidate patronage ties between intellectuals.

He brokers deals between big business, unions and trad leadership through party-centric BEE mechanisms for resource extraction. This shuts out popular voices, and led to Marikana.

CR is showing every side of SA a different face.

Anti-white racism and EWC for the black national-socialists, prosecution of his political enemies in RET faction for the anti-corruption appetite. Feet-dragging and tenders to placate "WMC". Unlimited looting for supporters.

Everybody knows the party is over. As @poplak noted in his book on the 2014 election campaign, people already knew the party was drawing to an end then. The money tree is bare.

Now nobody believes in the future, and only CR's ambiguity allows people to hold together.

CR is the only politician capable of uniting SA, but his capacity is drawing to an end. Consequently he must seek a coalition for 2024.

A DA/CR-faction alliance will produce a Russian/Iraqi style shock doctrine looting spree as the state is liquidated to pay for state debt.

But an ANC-EFF coalition is just as likely, and it comes with the total collapse of the country and potentially the secession of the Cape as ethnic violence and enclave militarisation proliferates.

Either way, we are going down.

We could blame "corruption", but the reality is that maintaining a state that has no natural commonwealth of society requires either factional corruption, or repression by a dominant ethnicity. Or both.

And So South Africa was cursed from the beginning.

And so now the final logic of Jan Smuts's philosophy will be judged once and for all. Our leaders have imbibed the ideals of the Western Enlightenment, and use them to control a population of traditionalists and conservatives in the name of holistic global unity.

Smuts, who conspired with Rhodes's Round Table society to consolidate a unitary SA through evolutionary government, wrote the nation's constitution, and governed it for almost half a century, saw at the end his project was doomed.

https://twitter.com/uMarhobane/status/1356593922043224064?s=20

He granted segregation to placate the whites, while incremental migrant labour was used to weaken the white state and produce an evolution to a unitary whole.

In the same way, the West pursued mass immigration to engineer global society and benefit international capital.

This gradual system of universal, homogeneous integration became the model of the world, as nationalism is replaced with progressive global governance.

No values or voices or interests of ordinary people are heard at the top. No culture is respected, all are deliberately erased.

But this is unsustainable, and conflict is emerging everywhere.

No state can exist for long without common identity, and South Africa was never more than a territory, an administrative zone of the first global empire, soon to be a province of the global republic we live in now.

These failures are linked. The US is crumbling because what made it a commonwealth was destroyed to make way for a global empire, necessitating social engineering at a grand scale.

This is slowly tearing every nation in the west apart. But South Africa will break first.