A headline like this makes me understand why Kenyans have switched off politics.
It just doesn't make sense. Just when you think these guys are supposed to be competing on their agendas they are all lovey dovey with each other.
the-star.co.ke/news/2021-11-1…
It just doesn't make sense. Just when you think these guys are supposed to be competing on their agendas they are all lovey dovey with each other.
the-star.co.ke/news/2021-11-1…
And this is how the ruling class forces us to tribalize politics. Because if they all sound the same, attend the same meetings, what's the difference between them other than their ethnicity?
Even the individual identities of these politicians are not different. What they call political campaigning is simply smile, dance and crack jokes and go home.
That's why I've been saying that ethnicized politics are structural in Kenya. It's not a choice.
That's why I've been saying that ethnicized politics are structural in Kenya. It's not a choice.
But it also comes from an in-built Anglo-Imperial instinct to hate difference.
It makes us Kenyans so uncomfortable with difference of opinion, that our first instinct is to remove the difference rather than enjoy the diversity of political opinion.
It's a juvenile instinct.
It makes us Kenyans so uncomfortable with difference of opinion, that our first instinct is to remove the difference rather than enjoy the diversity of political opinion.
It's a juvenile instinct.
Even UK and US, the difference between the two main parties is barely there. But I understood why Anglo-Imperial politics is like that. Corporate power needs political parties to be roughly the same, so that whoever wins, it's still good for business.
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