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[DefendTheTruth]

Yes, we can?

[DefendTheTruth]

The water tower of Africa will soon become the "powerhouse" of Africa.

Koisha, the junior partner of GERD, will also help fulfilling the electric coverage of the country.

[Za-Ilmaknun]

It won't be taking that long for Ethiopia to take its rightful position in the world stage....if only we are good to each other and to our neighbors. The politics of hate has to be buried with the dying TPLF and its partners. Identity politics should be replaced with civilized ideological based politics. We all should understand that we have one country and work to correct its ills than working to dismantle it.

[DefendTheTruth]

It won't be taking that long for Ethiopia to take its rightful position in the world stage....if only we are good to each other and to our neighbors. The politics of hate has to be buried with the dying TPLF and its partners. Identity politics should be replaced with civilized ideological based politics. We all should understand that we have one country and work to correct its ills than working to dismantle it.

Za-Ilmaknun,

i think, and hope many people do so, that every thing is not perfect at the moment and it is also difficult to expect everything should be perfect over night or in a very short time. Change is a process, they say. My yardstick to be optimistic is that the trend of the graph should be a raising one, not a declining one, along the time axis. As far as the trend keeps raising for many of the parameters we may choose to use to assess our issues of change, then the parts on the down-sided curve are the unavoidable side-effects, not good but we better live with them, in order to not lose the whole other positive gains.

But the big problem is that we expect to have everything as perfect as it only could be in our own views, else we jump to take the actions that we deem are the remedies, remove those in power and replace them with those who we think are our owns. then those who were left out (perceived or real) get up and remove those in power again and the cycle goes on, endlessly, the vicious cycle, as they call it.

The choice is ours and need to make a choice between tolerating the relatively minor imperfections or opt to tople the whole system and loose everything we might have achieved already, get again to the old way, one more time.

Understanding the difference between these two ideas and their respective pros and cons could be the key for us to make a step forward in the future, I think.

The problem is not only from one side, like I see it, even when many of us don't seem to admit that.

To get Ethiopia to its "rightful position" like you said we need to master the ideas of tolerance, compromise and pluralism/diversity in Ethiopia in its true image.

Ethiopia is a pluralistic country and we can't afford to look at it through just the lens of our own private image, in my view. If many of us start to think in this way, then possibly we can start to make a move to that "rightful position", I would say.