Sunday, 1 June 2025

Profile of the Kenyan Electorate: A Commentary on Weaknesses and Dangers

The rising temperature in Kenya's political space has revealed one of my worst fears; an obscenely ignorant electorate!

What could be worse, huh?

I think the most dangerous voter isn't the poor one, nor the uneducated one—but the one who is proudly uninformed, quick to judge, blind to facts, and driven by prejudice. 

This voter, swayed by tribal rhetoric and racist undertones, does not question the integrity of leaders, only their ethnicity or loud slogans. Perhaps they don't even care about integrity!

They confuse noise for vision, identity for leadership, and division for loyalty. And when their vote is cast, it is not for the nation—but for narrow interests, often weaponized by those who know exactly how to manipulate them. 
An electorate dominated by such minds will always produce leaders of the same breed—loud, divisive, mediocre, and dangerously incapable; essentially kakistocrats!

When I try to imagine how I will que to vote with the same minds, knowing they will elect kakistocrats to derail my country, I feel so heart broken. 

Sadly this is the profile of the Kenyan electorate 

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