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If it was me:
Thanks so it was just a different way of saying it.
The usual ANC tactics:
- Build and Encourage a group of loud mouth youths to intimidate the voters. Make them wear the "colours", you know - represent and all, bus them around everywhere, and pay them for their efforts, and actively encourage them to get violent at the opposition, but deny deny deny that you are encouraging violence at every opportunity.
- Provide the most excellent service levels starting 3 months before the elections start, but only in areas where there have been low service levels before, and in those areas your marketing campaign is about service levels. Purposefully neglect the areas with lower population levels, even if those levels represent the tax paying money. Encourage the "we are looking after you, not them" mentality, but ... secretly in the open like.
- Have long meetings with your allies, the traditional leaders and kings and stuff, discussing the agenda for the next year, including the financial arrangements, and the overseas "holidays" that all traditional leaders must attend. Gather a listing of the project or two that the traditional leader managed to launch that are actually still running, just incase these projects actually exist. Hand out key speech phrases that the traditional leaders must use as they move amongst their constituents. Use these key phrases in the ANC marketing campaign, use examples of successful projects in speeches at gatherings. One of the key-phrases is very similar to "us and them". Teh word struggle usually works well enough.
- Gather funding from all the BEE businesses that you now claim owe you for their existence. Encourage these leaders within these business to actively hold business parties for any business success, and at these business parties, to recite a "history of the company" and use the us and them and struggle words a lot.
- This one is new, and it's brilliant : Create a party that pretends to be your competition, whatever seats this party wins will simply follow your party's voting in parliment. This "opposition" party is also going to be extremely useful for undertaking the more messy tasks in the future. If you doubt that the opposition party is a lie, ask yourself where this opposition party got it's funding from. And, yes, the "opposition" is spending like crayzee. Also, ask yourself why on earth these 2 seem to get media coverage at exactly the same time.
They fight dirty, having years and years of experience in population mind-control techniques, the ANC is a force that has to be dealt with by out-performing them with 1/100th of their budget. The real ANC competition is the party that is closest to actually out-performing them.
This means that amount of work that the ANC has to do to keep the population happy is increasing every year, while the real competition builds up it's own list of achievements. Because the ANC's list of achievements during their elected term is increasing, they're actually quite a useful party to run a country. However, their "friend hiring and protecting" policies cost them a lot on the achievements list, and hurt the country, but, friends and comrades are required to achieve the ultimate goal, the USAfrica. Watching Zim run down and then sneaking your money into the country so that it becomes the new trade standard is just another way to take control of a country. Official political opposition will only rise once there is a hero angle, much like South Africa's anti-apartheid hero angle was used.
One thing will be different this year though, they will be cutting down on promises. And will instead focus on the competition, self - created or real competition. The self-created competition is a much easier marketing tool to use than promises, because promises raise the expectation levels of the voters, something that you want to avoid.
Viva ANC!
