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Will ODM ever learn from its past election blunders?

Nazi Germany’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels once stated: “A dictatorship requires three things: a man, an idea and a following ready to live for the man and the idea, and if necessary to die for them. If the man is lacking it is hopeless; if the idea is lacking it is impossible; if the following is missing, the dictatorship is only a bad joke.”

Goebbels dictum reflects the modus operandi of the Orange Democratic Movement. Subject the party to any in-house election or nomination of candidates in an election or by-election and you will be a student of Goebbels political class.

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