The democratic process is messy, complicated and often inefficient — but across Africa, activists are redefining democracy by putting protest at its center. In an illuminating talk, political scientist Zachariah Mampilly gives us a primer on the current wave of protests reshaping countries like Tunisia, Malawi and Zimbabwe — and explains how this form of political dissension expands our political imaginations beyond what we're told is possible.
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I’m a 1984-totalitarian-minority-report-evil-empire kind a guy
Yes, the stupidest, laziest, least productive people now have an equal say in a country, leading to it eventually collapsing. In a democracy, the poor will always outnumbered the rich, and they will use democracy to take the money from the productive, through the power of the state. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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That’s a nice story you tell yourself.
The rich aren’t the “productive”. You might want to step into a factory or something and see who does all the heavy work.
White colonists made all those trash in modern Africa possible
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You know what happens when people keep protesting for almost everything they don’t because they CAN do so under democratic and non-authoritative government (the one ruling my my home country in SE Asia)? Nothing meaning gets done and the government is always distracted by protests everywhere everyday. The crowd sure is hard to please and there will always be protesters on either/many sides.
Protest. Yeah. Sure. It’s working wonders in Venezuela.
In Africa it seems the only ones who were able to extract any kind of large scale economic advancement were invaders.
The lights don’t go out because there aren’t enough people in the streets. People in the streets won’t keep them on.