himself as the voice of the common man and the common man actually believes the billionaire is one of them and the person that will restore their dignity.
Trump has managed to exploit the public dissatisfaction with the average life of an American by painting a mirage of a savior who will rescue them from largely imaginary woes that he plans to resolve by trampling on minority rights and ignoring institutional norms.
As long as the imaginary foe is an immigrant who Trumps paints as the real cause why America has lost its sheen and that these immigrants are taking advantage of the American largesse at the expense of the bona-fide Americans.
Democracy in theory is supposed to have a self-correcting mechanism that ensures that it is not taken advantage of by an individual with megalomaniac tendencies but the raft of flaws we have discussed suggest there is a basic disconnect.
It appears that the problem with democracy is that it never envisaged that human nature is obtuse at best and that the noble human being whose highest purpose is a life of service to another human being is a fictional character.
For the purpose of this discourse, we have used Trump as the persona dramatis mainly because it is incredible that the president of The United States, the titular leader of the free world could dare and is at the forefront of cancelling democracy.
To be totally honest, Trump, as we had stated in an earlier piece is the only American president to go into that exalted office with the despotic tendencies of an average third world leader. Third World countries were way ahead in the project of cancelling democracy.
Third World leaders found the flaws in democracy a long time ago and have perfected the art of breaking the law using
the law. It is a process the happens slowly and legally and it is difficult to pinpoint the exact point when a government ceases to be a democracy.
There are Kenyans who believe that Kenya may have received the Major Non-NATO Ally status, a designation that symbolizes a deep-partnership with The United States as a reward for sharing the script of how to cancel democracy legally.
There are others who also think that Kasongo’ s vague and mysterious PhD was actually earned in political science and conferred in recognition for his having been an adept student of the original professor of politics during the Nyayo regime.
Allegedly there are also those that believe that the bitter rivalry between him and his former deputy president has origins in the fact that they were classmates and his principal assistant was the actual author of the thesis and Kasongo just stole it and implemented it.
It is instructive that when a leader attempts the classic military coup there is a widespread and immediate global condemnation of the change of leadership yet there is no issue raised when a leader uses seemingly legitimate legal methods for anti-democratic purposes.
What leaders want is the democratic veneer without the encumbrances of the tedious checks and balances that stand in the way of masking the truth that the real reason most leaders seek power is to run the country like a personal ATM without restraint.
Democracy has been panel beaten into a lofty theft mechanism that has global ties that ensure that public funds stolen in one country can be safely laundered in another one, that is why no toppled leader has ever lacked asylum and is never shunned.
Kenya is a typical case study of how to hoodwink the population by a holier than thou public discourse where one insists that democratic principles must be followed to the letter knowing that the same institutions have been compromised.
When we delve deep and analyze how Kenya has cancelled democracy, we come up with the uncomfortable truth that all the leaders that we have are actually illegitimate in that they have used a flawed system to get into power.
In Kenya we know that the judiciary was compromised and especially the Supreme Court which is staffed by political loyalists. Kenyans now expect that all elections will be disputed and there is always evidence of rigging but the elections will still be upheld.
It is a major flaw of democracy to allow the president to appoint Supreme Court judges and especially the Chief Justice. How does democracy allow a person to appoint those that will judge him. Isn’ t there a concept called a conflict of interest?
In Kenya we are aware that both houses of the legislature have been undermined by the executive so that he has a majority in both houses to ensure that he is able to pass any law that he wishes to legal wash any executive decision.
The travesty that was the impeachment of the deputy president on trumped up charges and the alacrity with which the serious matter went through both houses and eventually to the Supreme Court for determination is alarming.
In Kenya we have gone a step further and ensured that the opposition that is meant to hold the government to account is actually in government. Kenya by its innovative broad-based government has silenced the democratic role of opposition.
Kenya has long appreciated that a free press in an embarrassment to a government that is trying to mislead the public. It is like having that pesky sibling snitch that always tells the parents when the children have been naughty.
In Kenya it is quite evident that politicians do not get into politics to serve the public but to serve themselves. Politics is the one profession in Kenya where criminals and thugs are welcome and since the position is well paying the competition is intense.
One needs to remember that for a long time the media, especially the wide coverage radio and television were government entities and the state propaganda was the only news that Kenyans could get without paying for the information.
Kenya first line of attack on the press is to buy it and politicians have invested heavily in the media to ensure that they control the public narrative. When they can’ t buy it, they suppress and intimidate
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