CHANGE THE GAME – GIVE THE YOUTH COMMAND OF OUR NATION

Apr 12, 2013 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Revamp the governance structure but Guyanese must not buy into the shared governance theory being sold by some, particularly the PNC/APNU. It is a rat trap to save the day for both the PPP and the PNC/APNU both of whom have successfully pandered their way to a juncture over the cliff and await their precipitous fall into the abyss.
Shared governance is not a prescription that should be sold in a political dynamic that is evidently precocious, moribundly immature and callously corrupt. The PPP and PNC/APNU have kept each other alive. We the people must not save them; let them die.
The theory of shared governance in Guyana will offer no salvation to our failed state. The evidence glares at each of us. The question that proffers itself is whose leadership has caused Guyana to slide over the last 20 years? Whose leadership has offered tacit cooperation and collaboration with the deviant government? The answers are easy to anyone with an elementary education. It is the PPP and the PNC/APNU.
Why, then, should Guyanese allow these two dinosaurs to share governance of our precocious democracy? It is my firm belief that such a proposition within the current political context with its oxymoronic politicians will only cradle the prevailing status quo and worst.
Therefore, the timely intervention of our intellects across the divide, ethnic that is, must begin the process swiftly of reaching for each other across the spectrum. It is these intellects who rest outside the current political plateau who must now emerge, articulate, crafting as the go the way forward. It is these intellects who must now ensemble the new structure in collaboration with our youth handing the leadership to our youth and guiding them as the search for their own destiny.
The current political system, deformed as it is, must not be reformed and allowed to bring with it the aging attributes of its discourse. Real change is what is needed to return viability to our nation, give fresh impetus to our people and renewed courage and hope to all Guyanese.
Change requires bold demands and strong assertive ideas, therefore our collective peoples must be willing to take the attendant risks albeit under and within a new forum, alienating the old wounds of distrust savagely foisted upon our nation and its people by A PNC reform and now deformed and a wanton degenerate  PPP/C as uncivil as they come.
The prospects of an impending snap election ought to heighten a growing skepticism of the electorate. It is known that the PNC/APNU cannot win an election without an overwhelming endorsement of the Indo Guyanese vote. It is no secret and therefore no illusion that Indo Guyanese will never endorse the PNC in real terms- for this community the PNC is a curse and understandably so.
In point of fact, it is this very realization that drove a dying PNC to change its cloak twice (PNC/Reform, APNU), an illusion as it were that did not suffice. You can fool some people some time but you cannot fool all the people all of the time. The PNC knows that now, and cannot change its clothes again hence the argument for shared governance.
In even tenor a majority Afro Guyanese community will not endorse the PPP racist mafia regime though an increasing number from that community are likely to pander to this very regime because their leaders in the Afro Guyanese community have delivered nothing to them in real terms, reducing their constituent’s consciousness to that of bread and butter and survival mode.
The PPP showing at the last poll was indicative of an emerging maturity within the Indo Guyanese community that the party cannot continue to affirm political governance that is shamelessly corrupt and racially driven- there is too much to lose.
The uncontrolled advent of the Chinese is already afflicting a predominantly Indo Guyanese business community forcing many into survival mode. Thronged by the malaise the PPP too have trapped themselves into the vortex where for them too survival rest in contemplative shared governance.
The racial conundrum that has weaved itself into the political culture of post independent Guyana cannot and will not voluntarily suffocate itself, hence shared governance will not be a premise that will absolve this ill that has necessarily postured itself as it would in any multi ethnic and multi cultural society. To each his own will always prevail.
While the argument prevails that our system of governance ought to be rewritten the overarching pandemic of ethnic l insecurity will continue within and under any system of governance mooted and it is this infirmity that feeds the reason d’etre of our nations woes. One may argue that the system of governance is a victim of ethnic insecurity.
John Talbot

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