Be wary of Political Users

The world is full of people and nations that use others for one sided gains. This is an old practice that ancients discovered and used it to achieve power and opulence. The organization of ancient settlements was based on this. Kings became and got the support of those who stood by them. People identified with each other by shared ancestry, language, heritage, shared interests and many other things. Today's formalized economies are just the same system evolved. The modern way of life is in every aspect similar to the period of peasants and landowners. The working class who are the modern day serfs all have been trained to attend educational institutions so as to learn modern wisdom and get good jobs in companies owned by rich people. These people discovered secrets that serfs have not, or rather, are reluctant to. The secret of making it big, is to go for it! So they all work for companies that make billions of dollars and they pay taxes to their governments that do not tax the same companies they work for that severely. The reason being that the same companies in much of the world control the governments. Most of the companies are run by people in the congress or have direct influence to members of parliaments and congress.

Titles we use at work play a large role in keeping us divided. Just like the slave system had house-negroes and the colonial system in Africa had baas boys, we today are kept at each others' necks by the titles such as 'supervisor, manager, team leader' etc. We are always stepping on each other trying to please the men at the top. Men, real men act like little girls in a bid to make bosses happy. On the other hand, soldiers are sent to shoot and kill fellow human beings just because their countries leaders harbor political differences. In most cases, wars are fought for monetary gains, not real differences but one nation tries to get in the way of the and stop it from obtaining oil, minerals or something of that sort. End of the day when those at the very top reach a consensus, they men sit on the same table and feed while wounded soldiers are usually left to suffer leading destitute lives as if their medals will replace their blown off limbs or lost sanity. We are living in such a greedy world where political leaders poison our minds with dogma and set us against each other like prize fighting dogs. We do not care to think about the greater picture but lash out at the next person who harbors a different political viewpoint. We burn infrastructure and kill children because of that. And when all is said and done, when these men and women are comfortably in power, they turn against the same people who helped them get to the top. They secrete into social conscience, issues of race, religion and tribal differences just to pit people more against each other. At work, union workers are intimidated and killed as with the Coca-Cola Union workers situation in Colombia, Guatemala and Marikana Mine workers in South Africa who government was stunned because they could not raise their voice over the corporate giants who happen to be their paymasters.

The real enemy as I have discovered over the years of being bombarded with lies to hate people or treat them unequally just because they speak or look different from me, is not the Muslim across the street, or the Ndebele down the line, neither is he the white man I meet in the street. The real enemy is the system designed to perpetuate such stereos. I will not on any given day, raise a hand to strike another because they subscribe to a different ideology than I do. Life is meant to be full of variety, that is why God created different kinds of animals and varieties of flora. We all love to buy different kinds of flowers don't we? Why then do have to have every person subscribe to one ideology, that is tyranny and has no room in this life, not in the next either. The purpose of our lives is to celebrate each other, live together and help one another, and not treat each other suspect because they are black or white!

If we carefully analyze violence, politically motivated in Zimbabwe, we see that the sufferer is not the minister vying for the spot for which he is murdering for. The casualty is ourselves because if in our village, neighborhood or church whatever institution it could be, we lose a member due to political violence, responsibility ricochets back to us and we have to partake in the wake and other things. Take it this way also, if we kill a baker in a village, who then bakes our bread. Already a vacuum has been created hard to fill and it may take years if it finally gets filled. Again, the person behind all this does not care to invite us into his lavish residence to privately thank us or include us in the business deals that he will sign with shady foreign companies to exploit our resources. We talk about indigenization in Zimbabwe and supporting everything Zimbabwean. But look at how political figures run to western countries their sworn enemies to educate their children and seek medical help? Their suits are tailored by people they claim cause their people's suffering. If at all sanctions are affecting people, they are not affecting them because they still live in absolute comfort and freedom. The same people who implant hatred in our hearts for western countries who actually do have sinister motives of their own. So instead of protecting us from them, they accuse them and then deal with them. We still are far off from reaching true independence as a continent, wholly.

Another important aspect to grasp and practice is Questioning authority. We need to be able to ask questions and demand answers. We need to feel like we have control over the minerals in our country as well as other resources' allocation. We need courts to represent people without bias and the police to safeguard our freedom, not to steal it. We need to stop thoughtless chanting of slogans and think about what we are committing our votes to. We need African leader who rise and question authority imposed on them by the western world. We have courts like the Hague trying mostly African deposed leaders for crimes against humanity. What about the rest of the world? We believe in the lie that nothing good comes out of our continent but the truth is, God is for us all. We wait to hear what western countries have to say about our economies and wait for their generosity through funds they proffer to us. That help does not come without strings attached. They always need something from the help they give from the money most of them made of Africa. Thus there has been this dependency that has been created and people believe that everything good comes out of the west. That is blatant lie and needs to be killed before future generations are swallowed by it.

The revolution that swept across Africa during the colonial days was a very good development. What killed the zeal of most of those who led it is the corrupting power of privilege. Once installed, in absolute control of everything, the men and women who were supposed to raise the flag of the continent up high and put it on the map soon forgot their missions. Once they tasted sweet power and money, they moved in for the kill. They wanted it all, and all for themselves. People see this daily and never care much to reprimand them. The real criminal in every nation is not the man and the woman who are daily convicted because of various crimes, of course they are but the real ones are men and women who gamble with national wealth and the rest of the people suffer austerity. The real criminals who are unpatriotic are men and women who drill the earth to extract diamonds meant for the benefit of the whole nation and sign deals with foreign firms who pay them to divert the money and put it in their private bank accounts. The men and women who ignore the signs of distress to go partying while their people die from lack of medical care among other shortages endured. As a matter of fact, instead of going to vote for the simple fact that one likes an aspiring candidate, we need to ask questions and we need assurance, signed and agreed that whoever shall take over, will indeed honor the wishes of people every time.