Y3n3g3s3w wrote: ↑13 Apr 2022, 08:52
Without exaggeration Ethiopians would have easily turned against Abiy’s government, like they did on Col Mengistu’s administration, if it wasn’t for relentless effort of people like Seyoum Teshome creating awareness/teaching the public about the geopolitical and other issues surrounding the HOA. The sad reality however is that there are still some gullible who fall for the fake propaganda of the “ bandas”of all walk of life in and outside of Ethiopia. If Ethiopians want free themselves from neocolonialism and the shackle of poverty that comes with it , then they must give a chance for Abiy’s government by rendering unconditional support so that he wins over these good for nothing tribal ጉግማንጉግ አጋሰስስ attepting to create chaos in the country.
TheManWhoSawTomorow
Sir, (of the crypted nick), it is difficult to address you.
Just wanted to add one thing.
It is not ONLY for people like Seyoum Teshome that Abiy is succeeding, in my view, even when we can't underplay the roles of people like Seyoum, who is an activist and by definition such people's role is bringing awareness to the rest. This could be said, for simplicity, that there is something to sell to the people, else you can't bring any sort of awareness to the people from a vacuum.
Abiy Amhed is in my view, first and foremost, a strategist and he is using that skill/gift well in his political endeavors.
He came to the political scene from nowhere, in the sense that he is not from the establishment of the political elites of the country, a man born and raised in a remote part of the country without any connection to the power base of the country's political establishment.
He needed to understand only one thing, for the most part, for this. What do Ethiopians need and hold dear to their heart? He answered this question with his very first speech at his inauguration to the office of PM, it is the love of their country.
ስንኖር ኢትዮጵያዊ ስንሞት ኢትዮጵያ!
This sent a chilling effect down the adrenal of many observers, as someone coming from a political entity/party that claimed until recently "Oromos are colonized by Ethiopia", which OPDO did for years.
Many stakeholders of the country embarrassed him with their open arms, and he started to build his own base on them in return, hence after.
He then went on and tried to answer the the very basic question of what do most Ethiopians have as their first priority problem?
Poverty, if you have not eaten, then you don't have time and other resources to engage in any other businesses.
He started to tackle that head-on.
He went on and asked the third important question: which is how to eliminate the forces that have been constantly cancelling each other and used to start everything from scratch.
He said that is not the right way to do business and keep cancelling each other, instead we should use synergy of all the available resources (actors), along all the lines (temporal, spatial, psychological, etc).
His answer was Medemer.
He went on and said never allow your detractors to get an opportunity to attack you along the line of your own weakness, those attackers mostly use the word democracy as the means here for.
He said we have to build and strengthen the institutions of democracy, invest in education, because ignorance is the worst enemy of the ignorant him/herself.
If he didn't conduct a relatively more free and fair election, then he would have been undone by no one else but the by the Americans themselves by now. He prevailed and they failed on that front.
He invested in the people and the people are paying him back by now and his party is profitting from the return on his investment.
Here just to mention few things....
And the likes of Ermias Legesse and Shaleqa Dawit consider themselves rife for him, a futile exercise.
Take care!