Kenya is doing so badly, worse than under previous regimes, but in every institution, the middle class is propping up GoK.

The sycophancy of this era is at a level that I didn't see in the Moi and Kibaki times. People had opinions then. Now there is a tyranny of consensus.

Moi coopted people along tribal lines, so he divided each tribe into two, where there were the pro-system members and the pro-freedom members. Even his own ethnic group had dissenters. But Muigai hasn't gone for tribe. He has gone for women and the middle class.

You go to the church, the government, the academy, the media, you have poshly dressed people, many degrees, all sounding analytical and woke, but what they are saying is so completely colonial and politically dishonest.

Jana, #newsgang said, live, how BBI needs to be fast tracked because the 70 new constituencies are needed by Jubilee for the next election. In 2007, that statement would have been a bombshell. Now, they say it so casually but tell us that BBI ends winner-take-all system.

So what happens after BBI is changed, Muigai or his stooge becomes president, or even if we get a different president, Muigai is controlling the system by remote control? The same journalists and analysts now supporting uthamakistan will start shouting anti-Kikuyu slogans.

After receiving insults about voting three times, being blasted for only supporting their own, the Kikuyu hustler class started drifting away from Muigai. You would think that that is something to celebrate.

But who told them not to abandon Muigai? RAO and the middle class.

Kikuyus are being set up and misused. When they support Muthamaki, they are killed and abused. When they don't want to support Muthamaki, they are told not to leave.

A few years ago, I said that political negotiation in Kenya requires keeping Kikuyus as a hostage as a group.

Kikuyus are like the white working class of the US or the UK. In the US, both the Dems and the Republicans fight for that prize as if nobody else exists in America. In fact, until Trump, the Dems didn't campaign much among minorities. Their attitude was "where else can they go?"

In the UK, Labour treats the working class the same. They don't address working class issues, and now Starmer is advocating for issues to endear himself to the conservatives. Basically for him, the British working class is a guaranteed vote.

That's the formula in Kenyan politics. Non-Kikuyu politicians work on the Kikuyu vote as a block around a Kikuyu leader. They don't bother campaigning to other Kenyans because they figure "where else can other communities go?" They spend their campaign energies on Kikuyu vote.

That is why, if Kikuyus pull away from that formula, even non-Kikuyu politicians and the middle class start to panic. They have no alternative plan of where we can have a cross-ethnic, issue based politics. And they don't want such politics for two reasons.

One, cross-ethnic, issue-based politics means that the middle class will have to read and think. In one work, they will have to WORK. But they went to school so that they don't have to work.

Similarly, for cross-ethnic, issue-based politics, media houses would have to spend money on good journalists and investigative reporting. Superficial reporting is cheaper for them, so they don't want issue-based politics.

Two, cross-ethnic, issue-based means an informed and united citizenry. The middle class and those in power can't have that. Their jobs and their wealth respectively rely on a citizenry who are poor and whom they can constantly blame for ignorant choices.

This last year was a year of promise for cross-ethnic and issue based politics. We finally started to talk about economy and class. For the first time, a president was unpopular in his own ethnic group.

The middle class has united with the political class to crush that promise.

As @DavidNdii said, no one hates the discussion of inequality like the Kenya middle class. They hate it even more than the top 0.1%. https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/1382798011571576842?s=19

Our problem in Kenya is the suits. Na kizungu mingi. People like me. We are the ones refusing to let go of an archaic, colonial oppressive system. https://www.theelephant.info/features/2021/02/26/a-class-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-bbi-and-the-tyranny-of-the-new-kenyan-middle-class/

But there's a seed of hope in all this.

The system is collapsing. The walls of Jericho are coming down. The middle class cannot prevent the inevitable.