The aversion for the American political system of those who are forced to shade their communistic ideology crying and screaming is hilarious. They have no qualm to argue
that communists can be democrats but they can’t stand the vocabulary of the current US primary election.
Unfortunately whether in the US election or England or Ethiopia, one is bound to sound similar as long as one is talking about democracy. They are clueless how alien their analysis of “bourgeoisie party” sound to the average person (which reminds me of Teweldes sublime democracy better than Clintons and Blairs). The problem with the revolutionary democrats is that they want democracy for the rest while they show total aversion to what takes to play the game.
They want empirical and theoretical evidence to the simple fact the party recycles dull and uninteresting individuals, whose only asset, as far as the eye can see, is being a good soldier for EPRDF, and can’t relate with the people or the city they set out to represent are pushed down the throat of the electorate. What qualifies one to be a mayor for EPRDF is beyond my comprehension. Except thawing the party line talking points they can’t even say in their own words what it means to be EPRDF, how does it relate with their life. Beware of people who claim to have no self-ambition.
Ethiopian political business is not a scrabble to be played on American game board says the cadres who were in the wilderness searching for anchoring ideology ever since 1991.
For the revolutionary democrats who are deaf to feedback and fond of listening to themselves, it may sound an insult but the fact is if you don’t want to face the protest vote again then it is time to go out of the comfort zone and find out what it takes to serve the people of 5 million.
[Alula Nega 05/17/08]