Critical thinking:
Whose mind are you using to chcose what is important to you?
UNTIL you start objectively correcting your leaders, you remain nothing but a brainwashed political cadre. How can you see nothing wrong with this statement but instead attack a person who brings it to you for your comment?
"It was discussed on Thursday that I had won the election. They said I couldn't be president because I am Tonga. Where do you want us to go? I was not there when my father was loving my mother. It just happened. You are punishing the wrong person," Mr. Hakainde Hichilema said at a press briefing in Lusaka at Cresta Golf View Hotel after losing the 2015 presidential by-election.
Your failure to condemn this statement qualifies you immediately to the rank of Major-General in Cadreship Military Regiment. There is absolutely nothing wrong with admitting that your political leader is wrong on a specific topic. If anything, such objective feedback makes our leaders to rethink their political paths.
My point is clear and all my peers understand me in that vein; the current political system does not promote objective politics. It has reduced even the most intelligent minds to be blind followers.
How do you plant lemon seeds and expect to have orange seedlings? Why are we attacking Yo Maps? Let me help you understand the simple fact behind the social media misplaced arsenal by the UPND.
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory, and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.
Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public’s mind.
It is, therefore, no accident that the not so obvious but still authoritarian UPND regime exerts substantial pressure on independent media with divergent but factual views.
Why is Mpandashalo Mwewa blocked on Mr. Hichilema's page when he does not insult? Why is Yo Maps now a threat? Well, it's because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, with media feeding frenzies. We are a threat to a regime that has no verifiable development agenda to sell.
I am still challenging you, UPND intellectuals to tell me what is wrong with pointing out the weaknesses in Mr. Hichilema's separatist politics.
This idea of being nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, statistically means we tend to be punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty to the ruling party, forgetting that we must only replace a system with a better one failure to which we must continue with the system!
Is it, equally, not strange that Mr. Hichilema has seen nothing good about the Edgar Lungu-led PF government? Is he being honest? I leave it up to you to judge.