How does one explain the enthusiastic defense of a dictatorial regime, as is the case in Ethiopia, by elite support groups, even as the conditions of the country are going from bad to worse? Not only do these Ethiopian elite groups persist in their support, but they also try to embellish the regime with all kinds of fabricated achievements and promises despite obvious signs that it is on its last legs. After all, mere survival instinct should alert them that advocating for such a regime is senseless and that it is in their best interest to either distance themselves from it or do something to remove it, like a coup d’état or conspiracy to trigger a popular rebellion.
Despite the ongoing criminal wars in various places of the country, notably in the Amhara and Oromo regions, with the accompanying cocktail of flagrant human rights abuses, generalized state of terror, and a downward plunge into an abject national poverty, a surprising number of ordinary people, intellectuals, and politicians still come out in defense of Prime Minister Abiy’s government and his ruling Prosperity Party.
The reign of terror has induced such a generalized fear that most people feign support to protect themselves from governmental reprisals. Another added reason is the propaganda power of the government: the extended media empire it directly controls or finances constantly disseminates exaggerated and mostly misleading accounts of its alleged achievements. The third common reason is the toxic and pervasive ethnic divides in the country: they render Ethiopians powerless because they make them unable to undertake concerted actions against the government.
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