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Guyana does not belong to the PPP or the PNC

May 15, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Dr. Van West Charles is making a comeback.  Funnily, I feel like an 11 or 12-year-old all over again.  I am 36 years old.  Much is said about the goodly doctor; I am made to think that he may be a saving grace to an ailing PNC.
Dr. Armstrong is also on the comeback ticket.  He is also touted to be an experienced politician that may be able to make the PNC a viable force once again.
This is a Hamster in a cage situation; a rotating motion in a vacuum that serves only that which occupies it.
What I envisage happening is a regression into the same old politics that do not do much to take Guyana out of the iron grip of dictatorial rule. The hand of corruption that squeezes the jugular stifling a nation that is unable to scream for the much needed development and upward mobility.
Guyana needs change. This is where vision comes in; this is where the ordinary man and woman, regardless of race or creed will have to take back that power that is truly theirs to use.
The time has come to stop blaming the government and the opposition parties. It is time to blame the collective masses. The vote reflects our judgment.
Judgment is compromised when we make the same wrong choices constantly. Judgment becomes questionable.  It is ripe for the era of a new thought pattern. Whatever happens in our political future onwards must see the responsibility falling squarely at the electorate feet.
Whatever form the revolution takes in the future has to be a struggle amongst the masses. We choose and have to live with the results thereafter.
Whatever happens at the government level or the failure of the opposition to be the vanguard is because of our failure to act in accordance with the rights and privileges granted to us to oversee the affairs of our country.
The power begins with the collective vote and does not end there.
The masses have to look at each other in the eyes and say it is us who created the monster and it is us who have to eliminate it.
When we would have reached to that pattern of thinking, when we would have removed the radar of blame from our leaders, we will realise that the problem and solution are ours. Race, corruption, divisiveness, etc, really are ours.
The new thought must bring new leaders. God knows Guyana does not belong to the PPP or the PNC.  They have exhausted their right to rule. The have frustrated every effort to see a united Guyana. The Hamster must be set free.
Norman Browne

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