Dear payslip people, have you felt the pinch yet?
In the event that all working people, against all odds, one day manage to see clearly through the haze of lies incessantly spouted by Ruto's government & release themselves from the strangling grip of the established parties.....
Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
If you are truly ruthless, people won't attempt to play the victim with you, because they know it won't work with you - they know trying to morally shame you, appeal to your generosity or otherwise tug on your heartstrings will not get you to give them what they want, so don't bother coming at you in that way.
So if someone keeps trying to guilt you into helping them by victimising themselves, what can you infer? They don't actually believe you're a bad person, because they believe you're receptive to pity and shame, and that these emotional levers can be used to direct your behaviour towards their desired goals.
Nobody believes a "bad person" will be overcome by guilt if only you morally lecture them, and position yourself as the especially aggrieved due moral restitution. Nobody believes the wicked will act kindly if only you make them aware of how they harmed you. Literally no one at all. You run to your mother (or a caring or protective figure) with stories about how you've been hurt and wronged, not a conqueror or an enemy - the enemy does not care for your lecturing about their moral conduct, because they do not care about you, your condition or your opinions.
So if someone is trying to appeal to your kindness by telling you a sob story, or uncharitably reframing your past actions without the proper context and balance to make you believe you're a bad person or that you owe them something, it means deep down they think you're a good person who can be manipulated into helping them, *even if* on the surface level they're telling you you're a bad person that owes them. Because again, if they did not believe you had a strong moral conscience that would compel you towards rightful action, they would not be wasting their time trying to exploit that very mechanism to extract concessions from you.
When a less ruthless and more vulnerable looking man goes to jail and he gets bullied and accused of some random bullshit, let's say because of the tone he spoke in or the way he looked at someone or any other jumped up grievance, do you think they press him and try to make him feel guilty because they think he's a truly bad person who has a wrong to right, or because they think he is prey they can gaslight, bully and pick on with false moral claims into serving them?
This same dynamic applies throughout society, albeit in a slightly different form.
Bad people tell good people they're bad people all the time, so good people will give them things they otherwise would not, and do things for them that they should not.
This is why you must stand up to bullies pretending to be victims. Being a good person is not something you have to convince others of, but yourself and God. If you know you act with integrity and some cry-bully claims you haven't, you recognise them for the predator that they are and punish them. Let them know their manipulations have no moral currency with you, and you will cause them pain and humiliation if they keep pressing you - and they will stop - fast.
It's 2027
Kenyans votes Ruto out
His attempts to rig elections fails terribly.
Goes to court and flops
Handover power peacefully
We install a new president who will audit his regime and jail everyone who looted from Kenyans.