The majority are not always right. Simply because a large crowd of followers have a similar opinion or a view on a particular issue does not necessarily make that view right nor does it mean that it is the best solution to our problems. We must never allow blind and euphoric mass opinion to shape our future. Blind loyalty based on the objective to remove Mugabe will not necessarily create good leadership.
Slogans are good for motivation but soon become impotent when one has to produce results. Opposition politics are typically based on promises far detached from the complexities of actual governing; ask Tony Blair who clearly appreciated this fact in his book "A Journey".
Unfortunately this is the challenge we face in our democracy, where political promises to the electorate are framed in order to achieve pre conceived plots in the interest of those that seek power. As George Orwell once put it;
"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."
This week I want to deal with the mass opinion or view that the removal of Mugabe will result in better conditions for Zimbabweans and only Tsvangirai can achieve that. I think it is false, a convenient tactic that avoids us widening our leadership pool and alternatives that could produce better results.
Let us for a moment assume that this legend is true. My question is, and will always remain; and then what?