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[Odie]

Major Deficiencies of the Ethiopian Political Space (1974–Present)
1. One-Leader Political Culture
Successive governments have been dominated by a single figure or elite group, leading to:

-Centralization of decision-making in one office or party.
-Limited intra-party debate or checks on executive authority.
-Brand-identification of the state with the leader, creating political fragility when changes occur.

2. Elimination or Suppression of Opposition
Across periods, opposition groups have faced:
Harsh restrictions, imprisonment, exile, or armed confrontation.

-Closed political space, especially during:
The Derg: outlawed parties, executed opponents, heavy repression.
-EPRDF period: legal restrictions, co-optation, security-driven suppression.
-Post-2018: cycles of arrests, conflict-related crackdowns, and weakening of independent actors.
Result: weak political institutions and lack of alternative voices.

3. Institutionalizing Space for a Single Ideological Line
Regimes have often promoted a dominant worldview:
Derg: Marxist-Leninist revolutionary ideology.
EPRDF: Revolutionary Democracy and developmental state philosophy.
Post-2018: Ethnofascism veneered with centralized narratives around national unity and state-building.
Consequence: Intellectual and policy uniformity, where dissenting ideas are treated as destabilizing.

4. Tribalism / Ethnicization of Politics
Ethnic identity increasingly became a primary political organizing principle, especially after the federal restructuring in the 1990s.

-Effects include:
-Politicization of identity.
-Formation of ethnic-based parties and administrations.
-Conflicts over borders, representation, and resources.
-Fragmentation of national cohesion.

5. Ethnic Hegemony and Dominance Narratives
Periods where one ethnic-based party or elite group held disproportionate political and security power.
-Perceptions of dominance have fueled:
-Resistance movements.
-Cycles of retaliation.
-Deep mistrust between communities and the central state.

6. Rent-Seeking and Patronage Networks
State resources often became tools for maintaining political loyalty:
-Controlled access to land, licenses, contracts, and jobs.
-Party-linked business networks.
-Regional patron–client systems under both federal and regional rulers.
This weakened meritocracy and economic fairness.

7. Systemic Corruption
Across governments, corruption has persisted due to:
-Weak accountability mechanisms.
-Concentration of power.
-Lack of independent judiciary and media.
Result: public distrust, inefficient service delivery, and economic distortions.

8. Revolutionary Obsession and Militarized Political Culture
Ethiopia’s modern political class has often been shaped by:
-Armed struggle narratives.
-Revolutionary legitimacy over democratic legitimacy.
-Use of military solutions to political disputes.
This has normalized:
Command-style governance.
Suspicion of compromise or pluralism.

9. Political Violence, Killings, and State Repression
Recurring use of force by state and non-state actors:
-Red Terror under the Derg.
-Security-driven crackdowns under later governments.
-Post-2018 conflicts leading to significant civilian casualties.
Consequence: cycles of trauma, radicalization, and distrust in institutions.

10. Ethnic Cleansing / Mass Atrocities (Contextualized Carefully)
Ethiopia has seen large-scale ethnically targeted violence, including displacement and mass killings across different regions and periods.
In various phases, numerous human-rights organizations and observers have documented:
-Targeted attacks on specific ethnic groups.
-Forced displacements.
-Identity-based killings during internal conflicts.
Important to state:
These events differ by region and time, and responsibility is complex and often contested.
Conclusion
The deficiencies of Ethiopia’s political space for the last 50+ years form a pattern of centralization, identity politicization, repression, and weak institution-building.
These chronic issues have produced instability, mistrust, and cycles of conflict—making sustainable democratization extremely difficult.

[Dama]

Did you cosider this phenomenon if it is due the legacy of the 1000 year old Solomonic Dynasty, a machinery of wars, annexation of lands and people, plunders of properties, slavery and imposition of the Orthodox Christian cult rejected in Syria but found home in Ethiopia? I would because I think the excercise of tyranny by leaders in Ethiopia is a continuation of tradition.

[Odie]

Did you cosider this phenomenon if it is due the legacy of the 1000 year old Solomonic Dynasty, a machinery of wars, annexation of lands and people, plunders of properties, slavery and imposition of the Orthodox Christian cult rejected in Syria but found home in Ethiopia? I would because I think the excercise of tyranny by leaders in Ethiopia is a continuation of tradition.

As you know with the revolution, theoretically power transferred to “children of the people” or to the people. So, I restricted my glimpse into the era of the people and that is what I found. Like a dementia patient you are stuck in past memory and bast negatives. I did not live in the era of Solomonic dynasty and I did not care to be obsessed by it. Obviously cultural influences may exist now but the question to ask is what good did we do with opportunity after the feudal system was let go.

[Dama]

Dedeb.
Hard to converse with you when you are so presumptive and rude.
1.Ask yourself what were opinions of Ethiopian leaders about Ethiopians?
2. What did groups like EPRP opposed?
3. What doe groups like Fano olf onlf tplf oppose?

[Odie]

You shut me up. You are right bariawa

Now go for coffee and take a break

[Odie]

Dedeb.
Hard to converse with you when you are so presumptive and rude.
1.Ask yourself what were opinions of Ethiopian leaders about Ethiopians?
2. What did groups like EPRP opposed?
3. What doe groups like Fano olf onlf tplf oppose?

Dama,
Untill you drop your bigot behavior (hating christians, specific ethnics) I won’t be enthused by your posts for conversation. However thought provoking your posts are you seem obsessed with past kings, Amhara, orthodox bla bla. These don’t dominate my thought pattern. I focus on what is happening currently, what would be better for the future of everybody, what can we learn and improve from the past. It were in fact good if all discussions were neutral and non inflammatory but at times people get provoked by the bad things that happen in the country and get into some non neutral talks.

[Odie]

Dedeb.
Hard to converse with you when you are so presumptive and rude.
1.Ask yourself what were opinions of Ethiopian leaders about Ethiopians?
2. What did groups like EPRP opposed?
3. What doe groups like Fano olf onlf tplf oppose?

Man,
You seem to have a troubled temperament
Don’t easily shift to insult

[Dama]

You did not answer questions I posed. You added more jnsults when I asked you to stop insulting me. Can't figure out your abusive behavior.
I don't do things lai lai. I go to the roots of a problem. Tha's what you should do to be unbiased.

[Odie]

You did not answer questions I posed. You added more jnsults when I asked you to stop insulting me. Can't figure out your abusive behavior.
I don't do things lai lai. I go to the roots of a problem. Tha's what you should do to be unbiased.

Forget the diatribe!
I assure you, you would not make a politician with leading quality but a provokator if given the opportunity!
Done.

[Dama]

You did not answer questions I posed. You added more jnsults when I asked you to stop insulting me. Can't figure out your abusive behavior.
I don't do things lai lai. I go to the roots of a problem. Tha's what you should do to be unbiased.

Forget the diatribe!
I assure you, you would not make a politician with leading quality but a provokator if given the opportunity!
Done.

You just insult more when I asked you to stop. No idea why you behave this rude, this cruel, this slavishly. You lost humanity. You got to be very bad person. Evil in short.

[Abere]

Dama is eager to drag rational thinking people into the mud of bigotry and stone age barbaric ideology. In an era where the mother and chief architect of tribalism and hate Woyane lost all its teeth (most of the mama rats k!ssed dust), Dama honed his teeth to pose as Woyane. Alas, even those tribes for whom their Golden nature preached have started to jump off the sinking boat; yet, Dama from Sodo with 8th century mindset is beating his chest. It is however certain, Dama is growling empty. He might have been caught by an OLF-PP trap, set with piece of red meat on it (like Huresa) and now littering this forum badly with his Neanderthals' era thoughts.

Never ever, one can untrain and train Huresa and Dama to think locally and act globally as human. The former is possessed by the ኢህአፓ cult and the later by Wahabis.

[Odie]

Dama is eager to drag rational thinking people into the mud of bigotry and stone age barbaric ideology. In an era where the mother and chief architect of tribalism and hate Woyane lost all its teeth (most of the mama rats k!ssed dust), Dama honed his teeth to pose as Woyane. Alas, even those tribes for whom their Golden nature preached have started to jump off the sinking boat; yet, Dama from Sodo with 8th century mindset is beating his chest. It is however certain, Dama is growling empty. He might have been caught by an OLF-PP trap, set with piece of red meat on it (like Huresa) and now littering this forum badly with his Neanderthals' era thoughts.

Never ever, one can untrain and train Huresa and Dama to think locally and act globally as human. The former is possessed by the ኢህአፓ cult and the later by Wahabis.

Doma is not a normal person to engage in a conversation.

He is a paid mole. He beats the same thing over and over. Whines about dynasty, Amhara, orthodox etc and these things screwed him up.He has some form of PTSD or paid to say those things ad nauseam.

[Dama]

Ok. Off my face.
What are your sensitive and protected areas of concern.
Let me know. It's just fair to warn me before I digress.

[Naga Tuma]

Your hypocrisy is talking about “Solomonic Dynasty” while walking “Butler’s Dynasty” while remaining terminally ignorant about Akhenaten aka ቃልቻ or ቃሉ Dynasty.

Did you cosider this phenomenon if it is due the legacy of the 1000 year old Solomonic Dynasty, a machinery of wars, annexation of lands and people, plunders of properties, slavery and imposition of the Orthodox Christian cult rejected in Syria but found home in Ethiopia? I would because I think the excercise of tyranny by leaders in Ethiopia is a continuation of tradition.

[Naga Tuma]

ቃልቻ or ቃሉ Akhenaten has risen and come to you through none other than the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to beat the hell out of you and take his divine place before the Exodus.

You will then learn for how long you have been living slavishly.

Dama is eager to drag rational thinking people into the mud of bigotry and stone age barbaric ideology. In an era where the mother and chief architect of tribalism and hate Woyane lost all its teeth (most of the mama rats k!ssed dust), Dama honed his teeth to pose as Woyane. Alas, even those tribes for whom their Golden nature preached have started to jump off the sinking boat; yet, Dama from Sodo with 8th century mindset is beating his chest. It is however certain, Dama is growling empty. He might have been caught by an OLF-PP trap, set with piece of red meat on it (like Huresa) and now littering this forum badly with his Neanderthals' era thoughts.

Never ever, one can untrain and train Huresa and Dama to think locally and act globally as human. The former is possessed by the ኢህአፓ cult and the later by Wahabis.

[Dama]

A sign of worst things to come in the freedom of media if Fano conquers Arat Kilo. Ethiopia will not enjoy freedom of opinion. Will remain so or worse than the present . Every different idea will be ridiculed, shouted down, the insults and slanders we encounter in cyber space will translated into imprisonments, physical assaults, job losses, confisication of media equipment, closure of media offices. Who knows what else?

[Abere]

Do not talk as if you are possessed by Beelzebub. If you are DDT/Horus/Huresa or Dama, just say it out loud so that Orommuma Beelzebub shall be caste out. He should not claim you indefinitely.

ቃልቻ or ቃሉ Akhenaten has risen and come to you through none other than the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to beat the hell out of you and take his divine place before the Exodus.

You will then learn for how long you have been living slavishly.

Dama is eager to drag rational thinking people into the mud of bigotry and stone age barbaric ideology. In an era where the mother and chief architect of tribalism and hate Woyane lost all its teeth (most of the mama rats k!ssed dust), Dama honed his teeth to pose as Woyane. Alas, even those tribes for whom their Golden nature preached have started to jump off the sinking boat; yet, Dama from Sodo with 8th century mindset is beating his chest. It is however certain, Dama is growling empty. He might have been caught by an OLF-PP trap, set with piece of red meat on it (like Huresa) and now littering this forum badly with his Neanderthals' era thoughts.

Never ever, one can untrain and train Huresa and Dama to think locally and act globally as human. The former is possessed by the ኢህአፓ cult and the later by Wahabis.

[Dama]

I have seen enough. Heard enough. I should begin mourning Ethiopia damned by devils in cyclical oppressions to suffer for eternity in a permanent purgatory.

[Naga Tuma]

For more than 18 years now, I have been laboring to teach your RETARD skull like the Renaissance men of Europe labored during the era of the first Renaissance.

So, I retain my right to be possessed and content about it.

It is the same content all of you here are talking about subconsciously and shouting at one another like functionally illiterate characters do.

If you have enough synapses in your skull, can you answer the following question with a simple choice and prove you are even worthy of discussing with about any substantive issue?

Do you agree or disagree that Moses was the Pharaoh par excellence?

Do not talk as if you are possessed by Beelzebub. If you are DDT/Horus/Huresa or Dama, just say it out loud so that Orommuma Beelzebub shall be caste out. He should not claim you indefinitely.

ቃልቻ or ቃሉ Akhenaten has risen and come to you through none other than the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to beat the hell out of you and take his divine place before the Exodus.

You will then learn for how long you have been living slavishly.

Dama is eager to drag rational thinking people into the mud of bigotry and stone age barbaric ideology. In an era where the mother and chief architect of tribalism and hate Woyane lost all its teeth (most of the mama rats k!ssed dust), Dama honed his teeth to pose as Woyane. Alas, even those tribes for whom their Golden nature preached have started to jump off the sinking boat; yet, Dama from Sodo with 8th century mindset is beating his chest. It is however certain, Dama is growling empty. He might have been caught by an OLF-PP trap, set with piece of red meat on it (like Huresa) and now littering this forum badly with his Neanderthals' era thoughts.

Never ever, one can untrain and train Huresa and Dama to think locally and act globally as human. The former is possessed by the ኢህአፓ cult and the later by Wahabis.

[Naga Tuma]

If you fail to read some substance in the initial post under this thread, you weren’t meant to be in it in the first place.

I have seen enough. Heard enough. I should begin mourning Ethiopia damned by devils in a cyclical oppressions to suffer for eternity in a permanent purgatory.