{UAH} FDC'S SLOW DECAY & UGANDA'S POLITICAL PANYA ROADS!

Lets be pragmatic for just one second. Isn't something increasingly
wrong with FDC these days? Whoever doesn't see it is probably because
In Uganda people do not have the culture of getting something new,
keeping it nice, clean and shiny, and then make it better. The
incompetent tendency when we get something new is to use it until it
decays, and then dump it after it collapses, while all the while
claiming that all is well. Proper maintenance and upgrades tend to be
foreign words in real life, present day Uganda. One thing that exposes
this social mentality is the example of gardens. City council might
try to build nice public spaces with beautiful flowers amid well
trimmed grass, but even with warnings of hefty fines, in a weeks time
you will find footpaths crisscrossing in the middle of the once
beautiful garden. Generally speaking, we are always trying to use
shortcuts on everything, and barely care about the original intent and
the corresponding procedures that further the core purpose,
aesthetics, functionality and beauty of products. Why should people be
spoilers more than creators and carers of their own common property.
We first need to own up to this problem which ravages our families,
communities and societies even at the political and economic level. It
is in fact the very behavior that is at the root of the endemic
corruption that has infested the entire country. Greed and
kimbelembele. How do we talk of gains when we are leaving those very
gains to rot because we simply want to use them quickly to rush to the
next thing while trampling and destroying what we already have? FDC is
apparently no different in this aspect. However the ongoing
decay/bursting of the FDC bubble could also be the bursting of the
tribalist NRM ring-fencing of Uganda political life since 1986. For
those who understand at the bigger picture level the real, crude
national political tendencies happening in Uganda under the clean
public image and the pristine public messages, FDC is NRM's "ebyaffe"
(property) born in this new millenium from its single mother the
NRM-organized multiparty political dispensation and its "Pigeon hole
Constitution" PART TWO". Unlike for example UPC and DP which are
historical Ugandan independence political parties that were created
when NRM was not even a political sperm yet. But these old parties
have also been used by shrewed, treacherous and greedy politicians
until their current rot, and the criss-cross paths of members into
other parties is evidence of its members ideological bankcruptcy and
political greed. And now because of the decay of the two historical
parties, some of which was deliberate, their old and young members are
always switching to mainly NRM and/or FDC. For many, todays changes in
FDC ever since the party's new president started his tenure, also
bring forth the concern that FDC is quietly being taken over by
Obote's ghosts. They seem to have stealthily infiltrated the party
over the years. Under the guise of championing democracy and human
rights, Oboteism might have found FDC to be the best sheep skin where
they can come back to mainstream politics. Unsurprisingly, if one
looks close enough, it is possible to notice that the FDC members who
are most happy about the new direction the party is taking are its
"UPC at heart" members. What they do once they reach the helm is
another matter. History shows that their true tribalist colors start
showing. Some Ugandans are already claiming that this is exactly what
is happening under the recent FDC reshuffle. I was even waiting for
their disgruntled fired MP's to start shouting that their firing "is
reminiscent of the Amin days". As we all know, Amin has become their
song of choice whenever a politician wants to divert responsibility
from his own failings. Even when Amin has nothing to do with their own
present day political party mediocrities, endemic weaknesses,
infighting, same loud empty rhetoric on radio and TV Talk shows, and
countless political failures going to parliament for their own
stomachs while legitimizing their own political oppression. But in
regards to the direction being taken by FDC, deep political analysis
might soon start advancing the notion that more than ever before,
nothing guarantees real democracy and real political change in Uganda
today more than the implosion of a UPC-infiltrated FDC. It is also
true that the original FDC has diligently served its disguised purpose
of legitimizing the NRM political dispensation in its charade of
multiparty politics. In 2015, FDC has also abandoned the highest moral
ground where it took upon itself to campaign for free and fair
elections, the core pillar of real democracy. They then knowingly
dashed to participate in a questionable NRM-organized presidential
election which FDC itself had already branded as fraudulent two years
before it even happened. So joining the 2016 polls was like FDC saying
"I am feeling comfortable with the current political stagnation, I am
enjoying its mediocrity, and I approve the current NRM status quo".
All the while they are also talking rhetorically about change and
claiming that "this election will enable us to enhance party
structures at the grass roots level where we will mobilize the people,
and bring change". Many Intelligent Ugandans have seen through this
game. Many more have been disillusioned by that same old excuse of
"first building grass roots party structures". It increasily sounds
shallow, empty and treacherous in intent. Loosing its meaning with
every general election that passes since 2001. So lets put aside the
intellectualized excuses and related vocabulary about political
priniciples, political strategies and political ideologies/vision.
Does anyone in FDC want change that brings back Oboteism and its
already tribalist tendencies, or change that keeps Besigye crying
fraud while legitimizing and being part of the NRM fraud? Actually it
might be that both are one and the same. On the other hand, after
failing to effectively mobilize Kampala to bring change, the good
doctor Besigye might now be counting on using "the pro-active nature
of northerners" to cause the change he so dearly wants where he will
himself be at the helm of the country. Let us be clear on this.
Wanting power and being greedy for power are the same urge. The only
difference is that one is hiding it better than the other. And as we
all know, some have even perfected the obvious lie that they do not
want power yet in reality all their actions for the last several
decades have been betraying their true greed. It is only people like
me who can say that I actually do not want political power and I
actually mean it. The only reason anyone should go into mainstream
politics today is because in order to create the advancements in
development, education, heathcare, infrastructure, the economy, the
modernity and the prosperity that we all want for 21st century people
of Uganda, few politicians are genuinely capable of really pursuing
such goals, and obviously whoever really wishes to see the country get
to better macro-economic and political standards has to have political
power in order to effectively push for a greater and better national
agenda. Meanwhile, in regards to the much hyped real change that has
been continuously promised to the people of Uganda for the last 40
years nonstop by different actors at different times, where is it?
Since there is clearly failure by Ugandans to bring the change they
say they are struggling for, and the original NRM party power
structure is today tired, ageing, bloated, abused and disused, what I
would like to know right now is as follows: Besides "the usual
culprits" who make endless claims to their own names, who in this
country actually has the real potential for bringing real national
political change? Where is he or she?

--
Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin
Kampala, Uganda

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