Today, the PPP delegates vote but for whom and for what?

Aug 03, 2008 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Countless famous writers in all types of genre have poetically reflected on the human mind since time immemorial.

Quite a large number of them have taken a pessimistic view. One of the most vivid quotes about the mind that I like is from an 18th century English columnist, Scrope Davies: “Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.”

The Bard is inevitably resorted to when you reflect on melancholy subjects. In Macbeth, there are several references to the mind.

There is one reflection on the mind that when taken together with Davies’ symbolizes what is taking place at the PPP’s congress today. It is from a 17th century English painter.

“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.”

What is that foreign matter that the minds of those delegates need to keep them from being ruined? It is enlightenment. These delegates need to be enlightened about the values of freedom and what they mean to a poor country.

Only minds that are destroyed would go into a place of power and shout in frenetic ecstasy for men and women that have done nothing for a poor country that moves deeper and deeper into the abyss of deprivation and depredation.

There are such persons all over the world. They have thrown themselves into the bosom of flawed leaders and prayed for their longevity. Such misplaced imagination has more terrible consequences for some countries.

In the United States, there are millions who will vote for Mr. Bush if he was to run again. But their votes would hardly dent the efficacy of American society.

The millions of educated people, the millions of white-collar workers, the millions of entrepreneurs will carry on as if Mr. Bush didn’t exist. And if elected again, Mr. Bush would face the inquisitive instinct of the media.

In poverty stricken Guyana, wrong and flawed leaders obsessed with themselves, smitten with personalized power and enticed with public money, have devastated their country.

Who and what are these people voting for today? Why the sadism/masochism in their minds? Sadism in the sense that after each PPP congress many of them leave for greener pastures. Yet they are happy to put these power-possessors in control of Guyana. Isn’t this sadism?

Many of them are ensconced in New York where no doubt they will vote for a refreshing human being, Barack Obama. But while they were delegates at the PPP congresses they refused to create a Guyanese Obama.

I know several persons at the last PPP meeting in Port Mourant in 2002 who have migrated. I know two of them at the event of Diamond today that will be gone this year.

Masochism in the sense that they are not blind to the rut that has set upon this country even though their party has been in power for sixteen years.

Why would these delegates rejoice over their failing leaders who cannot provide the territory of Guyana with electricity?

No one is exempted from this misery. Where I live, I get it daily. Where you live you will get it daily, sooner than later.

The congressional delegates who haven’t got it will get it. This is Guyana sixteen years after the promises of the PPP.

And these are the promises that these delegates will rise from their seats today at Diamond and with exhilarating enthusiasm clap as one deception after another rolls off the tongues of those who cannot run a small fruit stand, much less a country in the 21st century.

Are these delegates so stupid that they believe their leaders at Diamond today that will tell them that Guyana must have one radio station because to allow more licences will cause the PNC to overthrow the government through the preaching of race hate?

Are there men and women at that confabulation that are so foolish to buy this rotten excuse for the maintenance of dictatorial power?

Are these delegates satisfied that at Guyana’s most prestigious high schools there are huge shortages of teachers and that tertiary education is dying?

Are they happy that twenty-three years after Burnham died, Canadian and American visas are hard to come by because the consuls believe that Guyanese are fleeing? If Guyanese are not fleeing then why has 80 percent of our university graduates left their country?

If the promises at the 2004 congress were kept, then why are we still in the mess we are today? And these delegates are going to applaud at the announcement of similar promises? What lies inside the minds of foolish people?

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