[CatoRenasci]

Zimbabwe post-Ian Smith is a hard example of H.L. Mencken's maxim that Democracy: .... the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

In their ignorance, the common black people of Zimbabwe supported Mugabe and the rebels against Smith. The Western powers supported Mugabe against Smith. For Shame!

Any white who could go, but remains, is fast losing my sympathy. The handwriting has been on the wall for years -- once I would have supported a military operation to evacuate the whites and coloureds, but now I think it's almost too late. Those who remain are mostly those who chose to, placing their businesses and farms above their safety and that of their families. A Choice.

[Cuttnhorse]

the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
I always liked that saying, or the one that Ed Koch said after he lost his last election, "....the people have made their choice, now they must suffer."

Unfortunately we will be the ones suffering as well because we'll be the ones to bail out their sorry behinds.
The next thing that will happen is the opposition will receive arms and civil war will break out, likely spreading to Zimbabwe's neighbors...the whole dreary process seems to have no end.