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“Why can’t you respect people’s political choices and opinions?”
Well, it is because it’s a matter of self-defense.
This picture was taken in 1970.
These two leftist girls joined the revolution to bring in the Ayatollah.
That’s his picture.
Well, immediately after he consolidated power, he turned against his liberal supporters.
He killed thousands. But the tragic part is that the same Ayatollah killed one of the girls in this picture.
And the other had to flee.
The question is:
if these girls had known that the man they were bringing into power would eventually kill them, would they still have supported him?
Or if they had known, and then saw others trying to bring him into power, would they have opposed them or simply “respected their choices”?
Many people think we are merely playing politics.
I will either be a direct victim or a beneficiary of the eventual political outcome.
Why then shouldn’t I oppose those I believe are supporting a candidate I’m convinced is against my existential well-being?
Politics is self-preservation and self-defense.
If someone wants to hurt me, should I simply respect their choice to do so?
Policies kill.
When Buhari mindlessly rendered the old naira untenable, people literally died because there was a cash shortage and they could not pay hospital bills.
Politics is about life and death. Tinubu negotiates with terrorists.
I heard they took tons of pupils from a school in Ondo a couple of days ago.
Would you have the effrontery to tell the parents of such children to “respect your political choice” when the man you’re campaigning for has implicitly contributed to them losing a child?
Those of you who support Tinubu should know that we are not politicians like you.
We are national pragmatists. We know policies will affect our lives.
So, if your political choice threatens my self-preservation, it is only rational self-defence for me to oppose you on that opinion.
And with all civility, humility, wisdom, and vociferous resolve, we will oppose such opinions.
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