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Paint me a better vision of a better future, and I will vote for you

Nov 25, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
While party candidates are in a ‘no-holds-barred’ clash to deface each other in a fight for supremacy and rulership of the country, it is time for the electorate to have its own ‘square off’. We should all have a ‘face-off’ with ourselves. We should sit quietly, alone, and introspect, and ask ourselves what national election is all about.
Is the election about colour, race, class, or creed?  Is it about religion, communism, or capitalism? Is it about the rich, the poor, or the in betweens? Is it about the past, the present, or the future? It is about what the colonials did prior to independence? Is it about the contemptible issues of the past PNC rule? Is it about the living atrocities of the present administration? Is it about Guyanese living in peace, harmony and prosperity? What really is the election all about?
The answers to the questions will vary as the people reading this letter. Arguments will abound to support differing perspectives. However, in my own soul search and soliloquy (speaking to self), this mantra was given to me:  “Paint me a vision of the future, and I will vote for you”. Contesting parties and presidential candidates must be able to lift the mind’s eye of the people from what ever dunghill they face into a new period of hope and betterment.
The electorate should also expect more and demand more from political parties and politicians. Guyanese should know the kind of life they want to live, visualize it, and then place a demand on the politicians. Which every Party’s programmes come closest to the good life we deserve should get the vote.
The electorate must also block their ears to incessant bashing of other parties and character assassination. True facts must be tabled to support the contentions. Elections are not about how much presidential candidates can “cuss” but how they can bring hope to a beleaguered people. Join me in the mantra: “Paint me a better vision of the future, and I will vote for you.”
Lennox Cornette

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