At the risk of getting kicked out of the club, I agree with this completely. There are prerequisites for a free society and no shortcuts. People have to be led.
Ultimately it forces voices like this out, which is what you want in a stable system.
But the important thing to remember is that Robert Mugabe got what he wanted.
He got power.
Sure, the country was ruined, and the trillion dollar Zimbabwe note is a joke, but the elites somehow end up OK.
So don't chalk it up to stupidity. They know what they are doing, they just don't care about the consequences to the common man.
The people who need to be told the story about Zimbabwe right now are the average citizen who may not have thought through the implications.
Not a bad turn of phrase here, either:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/19/all-power-to-the-farmers-revolt/
The Guardian-reading classes seem to think that energy comes from the plug socket and food comes from Ocado, rather than from the hard graft of those whose livelihoods Labour now seems willing to decimate. [β¦]
Starmer and Reeves could do with learning the lessons of recent history. In 2000, an arrogant New Labour government initially refused to rescind a rise in fuel duty despite protests from farmers and hauliers. A militant farmer from South Wales, among others, responded by leading farmers and lorry drivers in a blockade of roads, oil refineries and fuel-shipping terminals. This eventually brought the state to its knees and prompted the government to perform a humiliating u-turn.
Get ready for economists to start pushing the narrative that the economy is bad actually
Like when Facebook was begging for regulations. They didn't want to be regulated, but they wanted rules that would be hard to follow for new players in the space with smaller scale and resources.
