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Let Raila, Ruto turn to real issues now ahead of 2022

ODM leader Raila Odinga shakes hands with Deputy President William Ruto during Jamhuri Day celebrations at Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi. [Standard]

Louis XIV of France cryptically said, “The state is me, and I myself, am the state.” His 72 years and 100 days in power (1643 – 1715) symbolise raw monarchical absolutism. It is blasphemous for anyone to think he is the state.

And yet monarchists still exist all over the world, even if only in benign guises. The main difference is that, unlike Louis, they don’t crow about it.  

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