The current infighting is dirty and largely personal with a lot of name calling. Those who want to comply with the Supreme Court ruling are being accused of being ZANU-PF fronts or puppets.
The proliferation of online publications and the social media is fanning the infighting as the new media is competing to publish anything that appears on Facebook, twitter or Youtube with very little regard to the veracity of the story.
It is not clear how the drama will unfold or end. Khupe’s faction seems to be banking on constitutionalism. Chamisa’s group on populism. But one thing is clear. There will only be one winner. Which one, is anybody’s guess.
But at the moment, each side argues they are right. This has led one lawyer to argue in the Independent that the parties are employing what social scientists would call “denial psychology”, coupled with “psychological deflection.”
Denial psychology, the lawyer says, is a person’s act of denying reality as a way of avoiding a psychologically uncomfortable truth.
Psychological deflection, on the other hand, is a narcissistic abuse tactic used to control the mind and emotions of others, and is also a coping mechanism strategy.
“Individuals who use this seek to mask their own impulses by denying their mistakes and failures, projecting them on the people around them or most commonly their adversaries,” the lawyer says.
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