As a Kenyan American, I have noticed a similar disgust between Kenyans and Americans with their political leasership. This reminds me of something I said about Obama and Uhuru when they first just about to get elected into office. I said that those who voted for the two guys voted for a candidate in their heads and not the actual person who was running for office.
Not that those were the first two times that such a thing has happened, but it was the first time that I had seen so much excitement and exploitation that I suspected would not be delivered. I don't need to bore you with my rough experience from people of African descent while discussing that topic. But I will only mention that whenever voters go to the polls to vote for their favorite candidates, the question they must ultimately ask is what other interests have also invested in their candidates and will be looking to cash out on their investments once that candidate is in office.
Though hard to get an accurate answer, there are ways of finding out. Whenever anyone looks at what a particular candidate claimed that they would do and what they actually did, it's quite clear that those candidates had other intentions.
President, Obama, Uhuru and trump all come to mind. Instead of bashing those presidents about a job that he had no intention of doing, let me remind you of a play written almost 2500 years ago as a consolation.
The playwright was Aristophanes, the Greek thinker. His play was the "Wealth". The protagonist, Chremylus, wanted to know why some unjust people were rich and many just people were poor. So he came up with a plan to use the dung Beatle to get him to heaven to meet the Goddess of wealth. Once there, he was surprised to find out that the reason behind inequality on earth was that the Goddess of wealth had her eyes plucked out by Zeus.
Zeus, like the Jubilee leader in our heaven on on earth, was jealous of humans and did not care too much about their plight. So Chremylus defied Zeus and restored the eyesight of the Goddess of wealth. Only then did the poor and just Athenians get a chance to be wealthy. I wonder why Aristophanes used the character of a dung Beatle as the insect that transported Chremylus to heaven? Maybe it's because the road to heaven is a stinky one.
Maybe be our problem is not Uhuru after all. We maybe be blinded by modern day gods of the empire to fly our dung Beatle to the earthly Godess in the form of corporations. Looking back to the housing crisis and the slowbolization crisis, both U.S presidents offered disproportionate financial aid to corporations compared to the assistance that the common people received.
We now know that majority of the financial assistance to corporations went stock buybacks and not hiring more people. More corporations also mechanized their operations and replaced their workers with technology like AI than any other time. That was one way that some corporations made record profits even in the middle of the crisis. Other corporations closed for ever or were bought out by the bigger ones.
The economic tide of today doesn't lift all boats, all races or income brackets. The only other way that these mega corporations can expect to grow is through capturing overseas markets. Countries like Kenya will continue to face great pressure to open up their markets to those mega corporations. Uhuru therefore does not have much of a wiggle room.
It is quite likely that the unjust will continue getting all the wealth and everybody else getting all the debts. If we continue with the current trend, we will continue voting for visions that only lead to violence in the end. Many will find themselves amongst the dung beatles in a stinky environment. Dung Beatle anyone?