Political perspectives in Zimbabwe, at least after the recent 2018 general election, have tended to have a sense of immediacy and urgency. Spurred on by the fundamentally zero-sum power games that our national elections are or their highly polarized nature, we tend to not look beyond our noses as to what it all means. And this in most cases makes our national political consciousness excitedly ephemeral/temporary or informed by a stubborn loyalty to political processes we, individually, initially encountered as outsiders or as direct immediate and past long term active participants.
The only catch is that after the 'event' of the 2018 elections, the reality that 'in the moment/event' driven excitement about the former process was and is largely responsible for our current electoral and populist levels of national consciousness.
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