On the Wrong Side of History, By Choice

 

The people supporting William Ruto and his government are not defending ideas or principles. They are defending access. Access to tenders, appointments, protection, shortcuts, and survival within a collapsing system. They are not trying to fix Kenya; they are trying to extract from it before it burns. This is not politics, it is a hustle. It's a hustler's government after all, right?

Those opposing this regime are not perfect, but they are fighting for something fundamentally different: history over handouts, principle over proximity, constitution over convenience. And that difference matters.

If you support punitive taxes that crush workers, small businesses, and the unemployed while insulating political elites, then understand this clearly: you are not “pragmatic,” you are complicit. When fuel taxes rise, food prices spike, and PAYE workers are squeezed dry to service loans they never benefited from, silence becomes endorsement. Poverty is not accidental, it is policy. And defending those policies is a choice. And in the end, poor policy choice and poor governance will affect us all.

If you excuse constitutional violations because “your guy” is in power, you have no moral standing to invoke the law when it turns against you. The constitution is not a buffet. You do not get to suspend it when it is inconvenient and rediscover it when you are excluded. Unconstitutional governance does not eventually spare its supporters—it devours them last.

If you justify tribal appointments, ethnic mobilization, and identity-based shielding of incompetence, then stop pretending you care about merit or national unity. Tribalism is not culture; it is political laziness weaponized. It enriches a few gatekeepers while keeping entire communities poor, angry, and permanently dependent. Every time you defend it, you shrink Kenya’s future.

And if you support censorship—of journalists, protesters, academics, or ordinary citizens—because it targets “troublemakers,” remember this: repression never stops where it starts. Today it is activists. Tomorrow it is unions. Next it is churches. Then it is you. Authoritarianism does not ask who voted for it.

Let us be honest. Many regime defenders are not confused. They are calculating. They know the system is unjust, but they believe they can outmaneuver it. They believe loyalty will be rewarded. They believe history can be postponed. It cannot.

There is a reason every corrupt regime surrounds itself with loud defenders and deploys propaganda instead of results. It knows legitimacy is gone. What remains is fear, patronage, and noise.

So yes—there is a line. On one side are those trying to make money from collapse. On the other are those trying to make history by resisting it. Neutrality is not wisdom here; it is cowardice dressed as balance.

I choose to make history.

And history, unlike money, does not forget who stood where when the country was being looted, silenced, and broken in broad daylight.