Saturday 15 July 2017

The state of our democracy...

[Gambia] discounting what's really and truly happening on the ground and taking the seemingly hallucinogenic political pen games and wailings on social media at face value, you'll think that the state of our democracy is ailing and it's not.

In fact, if there's any threat, it's the cantankerous slacktivism on social media, the agenda analysts with vindictive agendas, disgruntled exes and disappointed aspirants, fake Robin Hoods and pretended Edward Snowdens - y'know: of people looking for followers but going nowhere in particular, except for being on every case, jumping to illogical conclusions and thinking the worst of everything, like:

'WAIT, DID THE INTERIOR MINISTER SAY THE SENEGALESE ARE OUR BROTHERS? OH SHIT, THIS GOVERNMENT'S SOLD ITS SOUL TO SENEGAL. RUN DREAD, RUN TO CASSAMANCE AND SAFE YOURSELF.' - but, really?

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