This is a political pattern worldwide. The decay termed as national psychosis is the absence of political leadership observable in international & national arenas due to the capture by intelligence agencies, media, social media, political parties on far right shift
Wars peak 2026
The problem is that the South Africans already know this, but the country appears to be trapped in the same kind of end-stage national psychosis afflicting the US, where β
of the population is legitimately insane, and the remaining β
act like hostages of the β
.
I myself have am tired of saying that it's only a minority and that most South Africans are not represented by this, because even if that is true, it no longer matters. The lunatic minority is clearly in power and there's nothing the South African majority can or will do about it.
Just 32 years after the end of Apartheid, you wouldn't think that the newly freed population would be on the brink of shooting itself back into captivity, but humans have an endless capacity to surprise youπ€·πΏββοΈ