It is very unfortunate. For about 1/2 a century Ethiopia suffers from what is called " a visionary leader syndrome"
Buddy, there is nothing to vision. The universe is full of reality. Either you abide yourself in reality or your vision is a delusion or a psychiatric symptom. You know what all bunchs of delusional "visionary leaders" did in the world? They took their people to war, poverty and destruction. That is what is and was going on in Ethiopia for a half century. Mengistu, the midget Meles and now what you have in power-name it. They all are known for making millions of cadres like Horus/Beke/hodus and worse. Why? to implement their damn vision. And what happened? We are back to square number one. War, poverty, destruction, division....coloring, faking, slogan and add ethnic fuel and fire to it. When will these mad so called "visionary" leaders stop coming/rising in Ethiopia? I don't need your vision. I don't want you push your vision into my throat. Keep your crazy vision to yourself dude. What the country needs is not a crazy leader but a realistic person who understands the people and their problem and a real problem solver-not chasing his dreams but able to solve the country's and people's problem pragmatically. My goodness. For your vison you kill millions, and you keep droning and killing. You displace people from their livelihood and paint brush villages into corridors so that affluent Arabs can come and relax. The country does not need a crazy leaders who pretend to be a scientist, agronomist, architect, engineer, a colonel, a spy, an IT technologist, a medical doctor at one go....That sounds like Idi Amin, right? They behave like a prophet, king, fortune taler or a preacher. What a country needs is policy maker, a regulator, a low maker, pacifier, unifier that listens and care for the country and the people. Not to baby sit them but give the freedom the space to think and fend for themselves, acquire property and leave what the gov is doing to people-means regulate and privatize. When is that poor country going to produce a world class leader? Why is that dogs like Cadre Bekele/Horus/hodus are the kind of people who try to tell us what is going around when in fact we can see things for ourselves and reach to conclusion?
Re: "Visionary leader"-My way or the highway means that country is under dictator or in trouble.
The problem of Ethiopian politics is the mispereception of of the politicians on what the imperialist USA and Europe want in order to recognize and support them.
If our politicians believe US/Western Europe wants chaos, they craft policies for ethnic, religious and ethnic instabilities.
If they believe the US/Europe doesn't really want protection of human rights, they will engage in violations of human rights.
If they believe the US/Europe do not really want free comptitive politics, they would arrest opposition politicians and the political parties weakened and become crippled.. Same with free media.
It's all about Ethiopian politicians seeking recognition and support from imperialist powers to come to power and sustain it.
If our politicians believe US/Western Europe wants chaos, they craft policies for ethnic, religious and ethnic instabilities.
If they believe the US/Europe doesn't really want protection of human rights, they will engage in violations of human rights.
If they believe the US/Europe do not really want free comptitive politics, they would arrest opposition politicians and the political parties weakened and become crippled.. Same with free media.
It's all about Ethiopian politicians seeking recognition and support from imperialist powers to come to power and sustain it.