Morgan Tsvangirai finally took his job as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He joins the government of aging strongman Robert Mugabe, who has run the poor nation into the ground with famine and cholera and a currency that is good only for use as toilet paper.
So, on the first day of the new power-sharing government, Mugabe's goons arrested one of Tsvangirai's followers who was starting work in the agriculture dept. The guy who was arrested happens to be white, in keeping with Mugabe's revolutionary philosophy of continuing the fight against the white devils decades after black rule has come to Zimbabwe. Mugabe's goons were also playing games with the division of the government ministries between the two men, bringing some extra guys to the seating ceremony for a weird game of musical chairs until Tsvagirai insisted on the original terms.
The leopard does not change his spots. Mugabe has spent a lifetime learning to be God on Earth to his tormented little nation. He is not going to share power until dragged kicking and screaming off the stage.
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I hope they do flee their homeland. That land has suffered enough.
If the people of Zimbabwe really wanted things to change, they would. The same with any nation in the world. There is not government anywhere that rules with the consent of their people. Even the worst of Dictatorships relies on the consent of the ruled. I don't care how large a nations army and police forces are. They could never possibly stand against the people if the people decided that they wanted a new government and would willingly die to see that change. Furthermore, not every police officer and soldier in a corrupt nation is, them self, corrupt. Some would invariably side with the people; probably lead the people. It is just a matter of degree. How bad do things have to be for the people to get fed up and revolt?