I do apologise for how sometimes we take it for granted that we are arguing with the same people we were arguing with in 2011. Years have passed and some of the people we having conversations with now have no context for some of the stuff we say. Don't understand the fatigue

Imagine how tired you will be if you realised pre-2011 that we were heading down the wrong path and trying get people to look at things a different way? Here is the thing about people with foresight. The first time you point out a probable outcome no one listens

It is similar to how people can adamantly cling to the assertion that covid is a hoax. You can do your best to convince them but in the end you are wasting your time cause they don't know it but they are waiting to see it have a real life impact on them

It's extremely annoying that all this stuff that are issues now are stuff we have warned about... Remember how for such a long time I kept asking where the eurobond money went how we were going to pay it and guess when it became real? A year before you had to pay it

When did we say that road and infrastructure projects were unsustainable and that boma had to invest in areas that feed directly into the economy to increase govts revenue and thus their ability to pay back the bonds??? Its not rocket science

How many times was our debt to gdp threshold raised in parliament despite people saying that that level of debt was unsustainable? It was raised 3 times under Alexander Chikwanda! They were even pointing countries that had a ratio of 100% as a justification for our high shani!

Even the fact that loadshedding was something that was anticipated back in RB times by one of the people running as opponents shows you that it wasn't something you couldn't anticipate. At the time it was just some guy warning that we would run into issues with our electricity

This was way back when power was put cause of faults and not cause we had a huge problems on our hands

Our problem has never been that we lack people with objective foresight on the consequences of our decisions. In all honesty even the debates we have now don't give me confidence that we have learned that lesson. There is always people with foresight on the consequences of our

Decisions. We are however, a people berift of learning and a certain short-termism that makes it hard for us to project our decisions beyond the now. Its a horrible way to make decisions with long term generational decisions particularly around the political establishment

These decisions impact not just you but how a whole nation turns out. We need to quit being sensational beings. I have met the most incompetent and sensational beings time and time again. We mistake charisma for competence and most time it is a sign of nothing

More times competence is highly skewed on the more demure forms. The action and presentation guy is good at illusions of success and we as a people like to be fed that story. Its why we judge success by how we announce it but I can bet you the really wealthy are not loud

We claim to want to benefit from those who can keep us from mistakes but at the same don't realise those people are always warning we just don't listen.
The things that should have caught your eye didn't. You need to ask yourself why? Not everyone is blind to the red flags

We should be able to listen while there is still an opportunity for a solution. Once some decisions are too far gone there is not much to be done but to endure the consequences and mitigate the negative effects.
Again it isn't for a lack of advice it is being hard of hearing

Make a commitment to be more open to different views of important decisions and their consequences. The most popular decisions aren't always the right ones.