The Endless Cycle of 'The FINAL PUSH'.

Zimbabwe has entered a very dangerous time.

The coup de tat that took on March 29 2008, replacing the civilian power of the OPFOR regime with their securocrats, former defence ministers and the commanders of the OPFOR security services.

The concern written of here is the inability of many to recognise this reality. The Military is at this moment running Zimbabwe; creating and consolidating a nationwide infrastructure of terror and intimidation (torture camps, widespread militarisation, violence and intimidation of opponents...) a parallel set up to their entrenched, nationwide information gathering network.

The promise of the re-emergence of order is welcome but it is spun as if the promise of change is as good as the reality of change.

On March 29 the voting process was dismissed out of hand, THIS event should be the spark that concluded the pretence that the election process in and of itself is a means to bring a viable change to the country.

History shows however that this is not the case.

We are not pawns.

Rather than see reality political opponents of the OPFOR dictatorship have opted for a continuance of their dangerous idealism and approved state of denial.

People having chosen to promote the act of the VOTE process knowing that voting in Zimbabwe has nothing to do with changing the current OPFOR regime.

The current state of play is one where fear is rationalized and dismay made into social theory and excuse, today the act of taking the change so long denied is dreaded more than the present disorder that exists.

This inability to confront the bullies at the level of reality rather than promises of impending jam tomorrow has created a bitter yet sweet state of focus upon an ever crumbling day to day survival and historic amnesia.

It has cleared the national mind of all but a hazy sense of national identity or loyalty. The exclusion of Zimbabweans from their own nation, both as an identity, a thought or feeling is reaching its climax. There is no difference between the refugee and the new found refuge.

It is the failing state that is seen as the hopeless cause; a view that grows exponentially.
We are promised that 27 June will be the end...the latest of a string of protests euphemistically promised as the ‘FINAL PUSH’.

Begun in 2002/3...it was a civil revolt brutally put down...the rhetoric of peaceful democratic change versus the reality of dictatorship. It provided yet another upside down, back to front parade that one only experiences once in a while in dreams. Those wonderful visions of a new Heaven on Earth that are totally contradicted by the nightmare reality of the lucid waking moment.

Zimbabwe's liberation is now more resident in our hopes and dreams...all suggestions of confronting the murderers is ignored as a return to order would be forfeiting this new fantastical domain where chaos has so many beneficiaries.

This is the strength of this seemingly endless struggle for the nation Robert Mugabe has turned into his feudal kingdom.

It has weakened all but those who will gain the most at the end, it has fed the imagination more than the belly...but this furore of fantasies and dreams has tempted Zimbabweans to pastures new.

The full grocery range of political nihilism is there for all to pick and place within their protest basket: from an empty will to power; hoping that (SOMEONE-God, UN, AU, US, EU, SADC- WILL DO SOMETHING!) to a will to helplessness; where people assure themselves that individually they are too powerless to do anything beyond satisfy their own lives.

Powers exist that could influence things but they exist with their own agenda and behind a front of moral asceticism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_internal_defense doing overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. It is wrong for Zimbabweans to be fooled. The dishonest promotion of a political activism bordering on Ghandism is killing more than it saves. The basis of its moral theme is one of resentment, the revenge of the socially weak against the morally weak. A critical mass is sought but terror of ‘Mugabe’ as demagogue, the needs and requirements of survival and a wholly inadequate opposition strategic and tactical base have communicated a storyline and sequence of events that is appealing to the apathy of a politically and in parts morally bewildered population.

The line of approach should be that we shall have our freedom in Zimbabwe though the heavens fall. The idea that we recognise what the military hawks are doing via the back door and we will oppose it to the very last.

The idea that national liberation can be found in never ending promises of change alone, or in dreams like the ‘final’, FINAL PUSH or rigged March 29 votes, or 27 June RUN-OFFs sponsored and controlled by the military dictatorship; is a dangerous fallacy promoted for mass appeal without any serious planning of realistic contingencies.

The promotion of ‘the change dream’ as reality does not allow people caught within the mess to adequately re-imagine the parameters of their own agency and act upon these new ideas. Confusing the dream of an election victory with the reality of forming a new government will not prepare people and will not force them to strategise for the coming worst case scenario.

Without a realistic view the past will repeat itself, the cycle will continue in language and deeds both all encompassing and degenerative. Until the next ‘FINAL’ PUSH.