Opposition politics: ActionSA and DA should team up for the win
Efforts by many opposition parties to sabotage fellow opposition parties suggest that they care more about winning the title of second place than they do about unseating the ANC. This race for mediocrity must not continue. The goal of opposition politics is fundamentally to achieve a better state for South Africa than what existed before. The main way to achieve this is to depose the ANC. No single opposition party is going to be able to pull this off.
No single opposition party is going to be able to pull this off. There is far too much political diversity, disagreement and alienation for a single party to take the lion’s share of the vote, unless that party is the ANC. This is not the first time ActionSA has focused its attention on opposing the DA, its coalition partner in many municipalities, rather than focusing on the big prize of replacing the ANC.
There are essential core values that need to be upheld and implemented. On paper, ActionSA and the DA have far more in common than not. They are both ostensibly free market-supporting parties with a focus on ending corruption.
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