If the PPP wins next year, they can never lose in the future

Nov 24, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If you are a political theorist, Guyana is the place to study. Guyana’s political sociology is complex, complicated and very unusual. Just one graphic example should suffice. Pick up any text on politics in a plural society and the intense ethnic rivalry is clear cut.
Those with power belong to one community and they are pitted against another racial constituency who feel that they are being intentionally erased out of the political economy of the country.
The plural nature of Guyanese society was straightforward, simple, followed predictably lines, and was like a picture out of the textbook on politics. An African-dominated regime discriminated against the East Indian race. There was a competition for power.
The pattern that obtains in a plural society was played out. The past ten years have seen confusion in the plural nature of Guyanese society that will perplex great minds that study political philosophy.
In Guyana, the roles are now reversed as from what was the norm under the PNC from 1968 to 1992. One ethnic community’s leadership is in power. The discrimination process against the other race was inevitable. But here is where the craziness begins and textbook writers have to re-write their frameworks.
In Guyana, one ethnic group controls state power, uses it to marginalize another cultural community, but the state apparatus is dominated by members of the oppressed constituency who willingly participate in their own social and economic diminution. This is a huge divergence from the traditional structure in plural societies
This unusual emergence in this country should have dozens of textbook writers rushing to Guyana. But they are not coming, the reason being that Guyana is a very obscure country on the political map of the world.
A professor from Iceland or Greece who is inclined to study the politics of small states would probably choose Jamaica or Barbados, because those little islands are known on the world stage as much as any top gun in Europe. Jamaica is one of the world’s most recognized countries. After Usain Bolt it is even more talked about. It is possible that there are certain people in the deep valleys of the Southern States in the US federal system, who have not heard about Canada but are aware of Jamaica. This is one of the things I learnt about Americans.
They really don’t know about Canada even though it is their neighbour and one of the richest territories in the global economy. When Canada hosted the G7 meeting a few years ago, CNN asked people what they knew of Canada and some of them couldn’t say where it was.
If the PPP wins the general elections next year then the textbooks have to be re-written and the big scholars from Harvard, Yale and Oxford have to travel here to see how amazing the sociology of this unknown, poor country is. In modern, civilized territories, incumbent governments like the one we have here do not win re-election. It is not possible. The electorates of the world have never been that stupid.
Castro knows very well what would have happened to him if he had ever called an election after the USSR collapsed. Chavez got a rude awaking that he has not recovered from as yet. In recent parliamentary elections, he got less of the total votes cast than the opposition.
He was mad about it. He is still in shock. The Venezuelan electorate is not stupid.
The PPP would have been in power for 19 years when the election date arrives. In those two decades, there have been more than 1900 national scandals so repugnant to the human soul that no decent citizen, without a corrupt relationship with the Government of Guyana, would vote to return to power such a school of leaders.
No ruling cabal that is as corrupt as what we have in this land, can ever win re-election in practicing democracies.
Citizens hate their leaders who cannot account for how they spend the nation’s money. Such behaviour has always been the Achilles heel of venal and perverted governments in electoral politics.
In this land, the unaccountable sums over the decade run into a figure that may be close to a billion dollars. The misappropriation of state funds is so unbelievable and incredible that the PPP should be demolished or dissolved after next year’s poll. Not to mention the social breakdown in the society.
If the PPP wins next year, it is not scientifically possible for them to ever lose in the future. How can any incumbent win with the sordid record that the PPP has?

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