Museveni feeds off scared Ugandans' desire for a saviour

People who experience extreme atrocities develop several complexes, which include the saviour complex. In times of crisis, specific individuals acquire the trust of desperate people looking for a ‘Moses’ to bail them out and they remain attached to him if he delivers. The need for a saviour can be due to a natural or manufactured crisis.

The gravity of the crisis makes people so desperate that they cling to individuals who appear to know what to do. Desperation generates heroes with messianic attributes to deliver the suffering from mythical Egypt to equally mythical Canaan.