Thread by @denvern3

1. I've been reading the responses on the Smith vs Zanu PF leaders issue. It is shocking that some think it is a party position 😩..Our biggest problem after Zanu-PF is nuance. Hey Bafo, we struggle with nuance and we exaggerate minors so that we argue on what has not been said.

2. No one would want Smith back, the extent to which they don't want him back is matched by their desire to get Zanu PF out! It is sad that some people here, architects of propaganda will take this and plaster it as a party position. It is citizens having a conversation.

3. Smith was terrible, it was not flowers and roses, but the idea that Zanu-PF has sought to outdo him is a failure of epic proportions. To be fair, the State inherited Smith's paranoia of thinking political opposition is terrorism and has kept that tone since 1980.

4. Even Jonathan Moyo admitted that JOC security briefings supersede everything as if we are at war, Zanu-PF has revived the Smith's regime securocratic apparatus and has failed to depart from the Law and Order Maintenance Act to this day.

5. All rural land is under the President, he can take and give as he wills, is this a State you can call a country? You see, when a woman leaves an abusive husband and remarries when she says "you are worse than my last husband" she's not saying "I want to go back."

6. It just means that you and the previous person are terrible! The common thing here is that you are both terrible and none of you are worthy or deserving of that companionship. It calls for introspection at a deeper level.

7. Zimbabweans cannot look back over the past 200 years and not find any period or Government they would want to live under! If I were Zanu PF I would never allow that to happen, I would die trying to outperform, outgovern & outbuild a racist colonial regime!

8. I would invest myself in transforming the State into a beacon of Black Excellence so that even those Rhodesians who fled in 1980 would want to identify with the modern State not the former! I would not rest until those who lived during that era erase any form of nostalgia.

9. Let them remember the Christmas celebrations with family and friends during that time but never compare that I've failed to give them a dignified and modern and much better existence than that regime. This is what people saying, that you can't be worse or equal to Smith!!

10. Yes, people are saying you fought for Independence, but what is the point if it meant replicating a State similar in form and function as the one you supposedly "freed" the people from? You can't start building a basement in rock bottom, RISE!
#ZanuPFMustGo