Muhoozi Isn't Stupid And He Reminds Me Of The Us Vice President.
Gen.Muhoozi Kainerugaba may not be as intelligent as his father in politics, but he is not poorly educated, and I doubt he is stupid as some people think. He attended Nottingham University before going for a military course at Sandhurst. He was at Buddo S.S – a school known for moulding kids with discipline and good manners.
First time I saw him talking in public was on a national birthday he had organised to sell himself to the ‘who is who' in Uganda – Almost everybody that matters attended the party. When Muhoozi started to speak, I was honestly disappointed, but I guess he was just nervous, because he has improved since then.
He reminds me of how some Americans view the current US President, JD Vance – some think he’s not intelligent, but Vance got a four-year degree from Ohio State in two years giving him another two years to attend Yale university. He didn’t squeak into Yale Law either -They gave him almost a full ride his first year.
Yale is one of the best ranked universities in the world, not just the US. While there are a minority of mediocre students who get through the back door due to extreme wealth and family legacy, Vance wouldn’t be one of them.
Muhoozi, like Vance, says some incredibly strange things and has some weird ideas. Don’t mistake that for stupidity. He is clearly crazy like a fox, as the expression goes but it would not be wise to underestimate him.
It is Vance whom the oligarchs want as the next POTUS, I believe. Peter Thiel, the billionaire, footed Vance’s senate and VP runs, and “talked” Trump into choosing Vance as his VP by donating millions to his campaign. Trump is just the vessel they used to get a breath away from the White House. Trump is just the chaos-maker, the distraction, and the face that pulls the public at the moment, but don’t be surprised if he’s “gone” before the midterm elections (if there even are any).
Thiel and Elon Musk merged companies that became Paypal. Thiel, Vance, and Musk are all followers of Yarvin’s philosophy of a CEO/tech take-over of democracy. And remember that if or when Trump is impeached “again” and convicted, that Vance is next in line to take the position of president. He did very well in the VP debate and spun the Trump policies well.
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that if one does have high intelligence and is aware of it and has been rewarded for it, that they might have a low opinion and a lack of empathy for those who don’t meet their standards and consider others beneath them. This can probably be especially true for people who came from lesser means.
Vance, like Muhoozi, was surrounded his whole childhood life by people he came to regard as losers and failures because he came from a fairly “white trash” background. This undoubtedly formed an impression on him, especially when he matriculated to an elite school like Yale. Sure, the Ivy Leagues are supposedly more ragingly liberal, but at the end of the day it’s a place for largely rich snobs regardless of what politics they profess. Sometimes the people who came from lousy backgrounds are some of the least sympathetic to others once they’ve made it. “Forgetting where you came from” is the term.
I think Vance has a high IQ, and very low EQ(emotional quotient). It appears that he has no core values and is only driven by ambition, which is true of many successful people unfortunately. I don’t like Vance sometimes, but that’s no reason to lie about a guy who managed to write a bestseller.
John Kennedy is a bit similar. He plays stupid very well, but he has a BA from Vanderbilt, a law degree from UVA, and studied at Oxford. He started as a Democrat, but when he couldn’t win an election in that party, he switched to be a Republican. Just a crass opportunist who knows what it takes to get elected in Louisiana. By the way, Museveni wasn’t good academically, but the guy has led us for over 35 years, and Ugandans aren’t easy to lead.
Being an opportunist and having warped values or being cruel and petty doesn’t mean someone isn’t intelligent. Nor is having manners, being respectful and likable a sign of high intelligence. Many of the nicest and most empathetic people I’ve ever known were not particularly bright.
Well, Muhoozi's biggest achievement so far is that he has created fear in the population. Nobody can mess with him anymore. Even Bobi Wine will be very careful next time he speaks about him in public. I'm afraid that the NUP, specifically under Bobi, started this appalling schoolyard name-calling trope – they have insulted Muhoozi, Besigye and so many people in public. This rarely happened during the Besigye opposition ‘terms’, or their predecessors. There was respect, even at a distance.
Whilst one tries to stay above that kind of juvenilia, sometimes it's very hard not to respond in kind. Muhoozi’s creation of fear has kind of reduced social media insults towards leaders.
He has also achieved fame nationally and internationally in a very short space of time. His Twitter(X) account has probably the biggest following in the country, and it's followed by whoever is interested in Uganda's future.
I also think that he has singlehandedly rendered the 2026 elections useless. All that hope of Ugandans changing the country's leadership through elections is gone. Of course, there are a few naive and selfish people still pioneering the idea of elections and selling it to the public via the protest vote, but I predict the lowest voter turnout under Museveni next year.
Somehow this reminds me of the tactics in ‘The Prince’ - that when you conquer a city, it can be advantageous to first put in place a very ruthless and bad ruler. This way, after a few months, you have cleaned the opposition, and you can expand the first ruler to satisfy most of the population and replace him with a more competent one. You can ever appear as magnanimous because you have listened to the pleas of the people.
The only difference here is that I don't see Muhoozi going anywhere soon. He's young (51 years old), energetic and not afraid of anyone other than his dad. I just hope that the rhetoric on hanging people goes down eventually, because it’s not good for our country. Human life should be so highly valued. I'm also yet to work out on who exactly is our defacto vice president between him and his uncle, Gen. Salim Saleh - both seem to be playing that role very well.