"Falling" state Last month, I was in Kinshasa and ventured to an area that is a region called Bas-Congo. I had the opportunity to have a micro and macro insight of the country different economic and social parameters. From the bold and corrupt immigration officers to the despicable congressman, an unmeasured quantity of lust, greed, and anger has destroyed the integrity of the Congolese people. Implying the Democratic Republic of Congo is a new democracy is a mockery. A century under horrid colonization and more than thirty years of Mobutu terror squadrons’ well qualify the country as an old dictatorship. The current democratic experience was deemed to fail. Democracy in Congo was a clear betrayal of the Congolese people under a guise of government reform. A government partly elected by the people never intended to fully serve the people. The constitution was designed by over-zealous foreign multinationals. It emphasizes on sub nationalism (tribe) away from patriotism privileging obscure lucrative control on the specific part of the country. Economic and social turmoil is not the root of the nation atrocities of unseen scale but rather consequence of greedy foreign policies toward the country way before it's independence. The proof is that patriots like Lumumba were villainified, crucified, and eliminated by western powers for their sincere commitment to the country. However, any democratic attempt cannot is futile as long as freedom is yet to be accepted in the most fundamental structure of a nation, a family. The society turns a blind eye on abusive rules one can brutally impose on his/her children. It has been said, “Subjecting our mind to other people critics is simply death,” from childhood, Congolese are used to being told or compelled to comply with absurd norms. With Kabila and regime in power, my generation is witnessing the birth of a new tyranny with the same old tentacles. The lack of passion of the “Diaspora” and of a relevant Congolese vision weakens any effort to stop this wicked establishment. It is not astonishing to see an entire nation glorifying any intellectual midgets holding any type of degrees from any foreign institutions. There is a sense of a national identity crisis. However, a trend building up from the consensus that the situation cannot go on as it has been for century and prolong for another generation. The current global economic crisis is creating an opportunity for a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo to break from foreign powers control. Things will get better if the country is just left alone.