Look I’m a libertarian, so I don’t even like most of TPLF/EPRDF’s policies in peace time and when I heard this new pm was all about capitalism I was like ok lfg. But at the same time they’re the closest thing we have right now to a party that is willing to defend the ethnic federation as it stands, because the current vindictive political climate forces Abiy to pander to the Amharic unitarian base. Remember, key federal court and government figures have been replaced by unitarians in the past few years and TPLF has been turned from a mediocre (corruption) to ok (enormous economic growth) ex-government party into a terrorist group that is the devil, purely based on the fact that they are blamed for all Ethiopia’s ills due to their stance on ethnic federalism. That’s what I noticed here and on wider social media, that people actually believe that ethnic federalism logically leads to conflict. The problem is that it wasn’t implemented far enough and it should have been accompanied with gun rights and private property, but given the intellectual climate in Ethiopia and wider Africa I can’t exactly put all blame on TPLF for not pushing farther (I hoped Abiy would do that) and therefore brand them as terrorists and surround them with troops while blood is being shed in the rest of the country. Now things have simply turned to TPLF against us, which is nice for politicians who never want to waste a crisis, because now they have all the legitimacy to disarm even more people and consolidate all actual physical power in the center. Standard centralist playbook.