Lets cut the crap,,,rename this group kameme Fox News...contributions froms phd ; muratina tapper's school; kamirithu aka mungiki kingdom school ..here we go..

Build what? And how?
If you had an idea, you would tell us. At least those who support a side are honest with themselves. They have convictions about their side, regardless of its flaws. This academic wankery is pointless. If you can't pick a side, you shut up and let those who have ideas carry on with business,then live with the consequences. But you don't to dismiss all the options as untenable and not offer a solution.
I will leave here a quote by Roosevelt that should give serious pause:

I guess this is one of the rare occurrences where you show how much you're steeped in prejudice. Instead of simply asking a question you attack with your prejudgements. But I don't want to turn this to an ad hominem.

1. Ask yourself, is it trully worth it to choose either, or, when both sides are clearly leading the country to the doldrums?

2. Is it unworthy to consider other options for action before making a choice?

I can also answer the questions you've paused.

Build what? A new political ideology and world. Of course I have an idea and that's why I've posted!

I expect better engagement from you quicksand!

Tycho, placing all blame on two sides may feel good but it is a copout. The fact is we are all complicit in this pissing contest. Our tribal kings can only project their bloated egos because we give them the energy to do so.

The only silver lining I see here is the chance to test our fidelity to our borrowed constitution (or not). But then it took a devastating civil war for America to become a 'nation of laws'. Is that the path we are choosing?

Chiloba did nothing wrong. We have to stop giving into babas demands.Chebukati calls himself the ref. In a match the opposing sides always have to bicker , but the ref blows the whistle and calls the shots. The law is on his side. He has done everything to carry out a sane election.

On another note, those who don't vote like @alma should stop inciting the public and turn their tvs to cartoon network. Those who are listening to Miguna and applauding him, I hope you have an address in Ontario. If not , I hope atakufungulia nyumba. In short, when things turn south you will either be fleeing to Somalia or UG. Magufuli people dispise us and South Sudanese will turn you into a meal.

Unfortunately,the politicians are selected from other Kenyans.Society begets what it deserves.

Thank you @quicksand.

Let me begin by saying that I believe that it is valid and even a point worth considering when we have inclinations or beliefs about the needed existential experiences without having outlines of what's better. It's like being in a maze. You don't know how the 'center' looks like. But the suggestions of the pathways incline us to seek that very center.

If you may consider the above analogy for a moment you realize that even how a group of children would go about finding their way to the center, without knowing how the center looks like. Last time I and my friends tried, we got soda and bread, and a free ride back home.

But I'd like to matters a bit to the extreme and venture even the outline of the center, hahaha, because I've been to the center. My political philosophy is of the order of Christ, Plato, and going back to the Kemetian ideology, and to the order of Melchizedek.

And it is this tree that allows me to say that in very simple terms, we have to engage with our politicians and ourselves each as a 'Mwenyenchi' and not as 'Mwananchi'. And also, as 'Mwenyetaifa'.

We can know a system that is working against us as humans who are first and foremost subject to the laws of nature, by how the laws of nature apply to most of us. For most of us we don't enjoy our lives. Yet it's prerogative that if the laws of nature apply, then, it must be possible to enjoy a living. Yet for most of us, we struggle to make a living, and in fact even that life we struggle to make, doesn't materialize. If, @quicksand, there's a problem of evil, then this is its restatement.

The problem of evil, is the problem of political action. So, can we have bodies politic, that can overcome the problem of evil as stated? Yes! Of course we can!

Hannah Arendt, reminds us that 'Revolution' is going back to the beginning. That is, to our first understandings, knowledge, of our begining.

My order, posits that all are instances of the knowledge of the tree of life. The ankh. That is the solution to evil. Yet this tree is at the begining. Revolution is partaking of the tree of life.

All this implies reforming ourselves, our nation states, our world. Even our education, because the matter of the tree of life is a matter of priesthood. And many of us are averse to priesthood. But, it doesn't need a theist, to realize that the primal family, and the primal state, must ipso facto have a priesthood. Even an atheistic one.

So, we are looking at a theocratic democracy with a priesthood of the order of Melchizedek.

You're right about placing the blame on sides. In fact, placing blame is a technique of exclusivity. What we need is to have a perspective of inclusivity and placing of responsibility and not blame.

We can choose anarchy. But not war. Both sides will lack an effective ideology of war that can unite the nation state. Not unless the international community has interest in our anarchy then no power can fund a war.

We'll start killing ourselves and perpetuating the status quo despite our wishes. We'll lock up ourselves in hell.

You need to understand Kenyan politics. Our politics is not and has never been about legitimacy. From Jomo's government to Uhuru's or even Raila's and eventually Ruto's or Kalonzo's, Kenyans have never wanted a saint government.
As for war, what war are you talking about? Who will participate in the war? There can only be one war, between the rich and the poor and the rich control the country including the weapons of war and the soldiers and the poor know it. There can be killings but there can never be war in my opinion. So, who would lead the war?
One thing we forget is the politicians are professional, this is what they do day and night, the citizens only matter to them during the voting season that's when they come and divide us to their benefit then life goes on after. We the citizens are only a means to a selfish end. I dare tell you that the person to be most afraid of is not Raila or Uhuru but WSR. Just listen to the way he talks and you'll wonder if it's about Uhuru's reelection or 2022. I can bet you that even Raila has no beef with Uhuru and is more worried about the son of Samoi.

@2012, there's no politics without legitimacy. Politics happens when humans come together in action, and that action is justified and endorsed by a common will.

Legitimacy has it's own continuum of characteristics and some instances may not be so saintly, like the Kenya you understand.

Now this unsaintly legitimacy you're talking about is crumbling. I believe I've done my due dilligence in understanding Kenyan politics. And, while your professionals, play their games, disorder is increasing because the laws of nature surpass positive laws and actions on earth.

Right now, there's a constitution that may soon be radically altered without informed, and willing consent given with reasonable expectation of universal harmony and effectiveness. That is, after these coming elections, Kenya risks going the path of a completely failed state.

About war: War is the application of force on another with the intent of subduing the other's will and to attain certain selfish objectives.

A war, can start itself. And it can run itself to exhaustion. Just like a fire. Right now the fire is raging, and our leaders are fanning it. Not knowing that it's a wild fire out of their hands. Something beyond professionalism.

2022 is very close. And it's also far. The professionals can be talking about it, but they also need to know what's happening now.