On this day in 2007, Kenyans Voted and two days later the country descended into anarchy. Never ever should the madness we witnessed recur again in this country.

Some may say I'm being unfair to the group, but the reality is, this is the category that picks a machette n cuts its own to pieces, then quickly blames the other politician. The same group that lends the politician so many ears n heaps so much praise without a so much of a critical thought. Well, we fluked in 2002 {baks} n 2007{Baks + RAO}, this time round we aint so lucky.

I totally agree that it is the average voter who decides the leadership of a country. The politicians know this too well and thats why they feed the country with BS day in day out and still get elected.

Waititu once said the definition of a Governor's role in Dandora is very different from someone in Karen.

Another former minister once told a crowd to resist Mau Restoration because rain come from the skies and not the Mau trees. The crowd cheered.

These my friends are the one who will decide our leadership in March 2013. They registered in droves and will queue for as long as it takes to elect their person (maybe motivated by some Ksh. 200). This average voter doesn't care about the ISSUES per se, he just knows their local vernacular station (owned by a politician most of the cases) has said that is our person and its a done deal.

What will the educated middle class citizen do, he will be rushing to the bank to clear some cheques, do some shopping, hang around coffee shops in malls reading newspapers, complain of IEBC inefficiencies creating to many long queues...and then NOT vote.

Whats is the solution? Civic Education!!! How many organizations are currently doing that right now? Very few and the ones who try we condemn them as "NGOs trying to promote the agendas of the West"(Ok, maybe some are, but not all). In the US, a middle-level school knows what the First and Second Amendments are. Heck, we even know them and we are not even Americans. Does the average voter know what is contained in the Chapter 6 of the constitution? Other than the buzzword "Intergrity", can even an average Wazua quote any other clause contained therein? (Very few)

In my county, the leading candidate (as per the word on the ground) has been accused of a myriad of corrupt and criminal deals, is flexing his financial muscle right left and center and yet he is the most popular guy in the county.

What is the solution. As an educated, well informed Kenyan, make it your duty to "change" just one average voter to be issue-based. Talk to them about Foreign Policy, Fiscal Policy, National Debt, Government spending, Integrity and break it down to how they come down to affect the price of unga and create employment. With that you will slowly change that average voter to an informed voter in a few years to come (Unfortunately not 2013, that one is going tribal all the way).

If we dont do that, they will continue being misused and misled by the politicians we have and they will continue seeing you as elitist with a Nairobi mentality.

Think about it.

The middle class are so full of themself. They purport to know what ails our country and to have the solutions. They wish to convince the average voter that voting a certain way is wise, because if they did otherwise, things that don't really matter to the average voters will happen and well! the middle class will be affected. So actually they are looking up to the average voter to protect their status quo. The sad thing is that they(middle class) don't have the votes and probably they wouldn't bother going to vote because of the long winding queues. When the average voter votes with his/her stomach or with his/her heart to secure his/her own interests, the middle class cry foul. Come on, don't we all vote for our very own interests? Let the peasants be and let's pray that the average voter gets empowered(something no politician would like) so they would start voting using their head and stop being used by politicians.

The middle class has enough money and influence to empower the average voter.

The problem with it is that it has too much selfishness and very little imagination.

This being between a rock and hard place is a lie.