FRM2011 wrote:
Everyday is an opportunity to learn something new in politics.
About a week ago, known jubilee bloggers shared two badly done Photoshop images of Raila.
One was a Rao supporter in Kibra holding a placard reading "No reforms no elections." In the photoshop, the message had been edited to read "Vote Raila = Vote God".
The second one was lifted from a normal campaign billboard along Ngong road. The edited message read " Vote Raila Baba, Raila mwana na Raila roho mtakatifu".
I laughed it off when I saw them but then close friends and family started asking me how I can be associated with such blasphemy. I had to keep re-posting the original photos but they still could not be convinced. I kept hearing thing like "Never mock God". Some were explaining God can forgive but the holy spirit is ruthless. Don't know what that means.
Then today I attended church in the village and the pastor was talking about the demonic powers that want to take over this country. Those photos were his reference point. In August I had hired quite a good number of young men and women in the village as NASA agents. Now people here are wondering whether I am part of this anti-christ movement.
Hats off cambridge analytica. They knew how powerful religion is and have used it to deliver a powerful blow to Raila.
This is propaganda-on-steroids.
It is all in the mind. Unfortunately that is just how the world is. I would not worry too much about it because the people who will believe it had already taken a position before they heard it and even those those who have converted will very soon hear a different message from another source.
In North Korea all outside media is banned and every day the people are told that they are the most special, happiest, strongest and most beautiful people on earth, Kim Jong Un their supreme leader loves all of them dearly and their brothers in the South are enslaved by the Americans. With such a message even in the midst of famine not many people complain. That is one country nobody would want to go to war with because every single citizen is a soldier who will fight to the death because the battle of the mind is already won.