Daily Monitor Sunday May 23 2021 The struggle’ used to be a magical word which pulled democracy out of the hat worn by the Idi Amin and Milton Obote “dictatorships”. It connoted a “protracted people’s war”, developed by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong and copied by Yoweri Museveni to ensure Ugandan politics were circumscribed by the “correct line”. Then, over time, that line was thinned to non-existence when redrawn between the politics of the past and the politics of today. After this, Ugandans were subjected to the Shakespearean tragedy of NRM rule: all sound and fury, signifying nothing. As Ugandans are yoked to NRM’s maladministration, the poor have little hope of escaping deprivation, debt, disease and disaster.