i was only really disagreeing about an aspect the orating/manipulating biti agree he was unstable and probably prone to balls it up at some point once in power.
but in terms of the populace being beaten already, they were surely then receptive to ideas that lots of people tried to sway them on, not just his, yet he was the one who won their support. there was probably a bit of luck there, yes, and it needed a desperate population in the first place to countenance such 'out there' ideas, but i think he was more successful in taking advantage of people than almost anyone else would have been in the same situation
(but in terms of the populace being beaten already, they were surely then receptive to ideas that lots of people tried to sway them on, not just his, yet he was the one who won their support. there was probably a bit of luck there, yes, and it needed a desperate population in the first place to countenance such 'out there' ideas, but i think he was more successful in taking advantage of people than almost anyone else would have been in the same situation
plentyofants more ghee, vicar?,
Sat 5 May 2007, 21:46,
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That's whatnarcissism will do to a man though. he was the one that did it not because he was brilliant but because he was fundamentally wired to believe in his own god complex.
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Sat 5 May 2007, 22:01,
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