You can squeeze the cow but who says milk will come

Jul 31, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I wrote yesterday that the PPP will sing the song about the disastrous PNC 2014 Congress until the next general election and will beat it to death at bottom house meetings deep in the Indian countryside. But the question remains – can the PPP successfully milk this PNC disaster?
The answer is no. And the reason lies inside the nature of dictatorship. I return once again to the process of irrationality that inheres in dictatorship. At the practical level, the PPP could only weaken the PNC if the PPP keeps the congress fiasco alive while offering itself as a better alternative to APNU and AFC.
This is practical politics. But it will not work for the PPP. It could only work in normal political circumstances. Such a strategy is a non-starter in authoritarian systems because irrationality and practical thinking are opposites in such systems.
What will happen then is that the PPP will try to milk the PNC’s congress catastrophe but the cow will not offer the liquid. As soon as the PPP leaders leave the podium after their vivid description for their supporters of how the PNC behaved at their congress, there will be a manifestation of some stupidity, cruelty or depravity thereby knocking out of people’s vision, the PNC’s debacle.
Let’s offer an example. The PNC congress fiasco has been making the rounds since Sunday afternoon. But look at the front page picture on the Tuesday edition of the Stabroek News. When you see that, you are so annoyed that you don’t want to hear about what the PNC did. The Stabroek’s image is of a long and winding line of applicants for Birth Certificates.
If there is any group of people in control of a government that is irrational, pompous and silly, it is the PPP. Every major public sector delivery has broken down. You name it; it has extensive functional problems. We can name a few – UG, Guysuco, GPL, the Police Force, and GWI.
For decades now, the office dealing with the issuance of Birth Certificates has been functioning at a minimum. Why would any government want to increase the pressure on such a fragile body by stipulating, that first time passport applicants are required to present a birth certificate that is less than two months old, subsequently changed to two year? Only one word is apt—irrational.
The PNC has nothing to fear from the PPP from the fallout of their 2014 congress. Political observers and many other Guyanese will keep talking about it. But the nasty spin the PPP will continue to put on it will not reverberate because the PPP will supplant the currency of the PNC’s troubles by the imposition on the Guyanese nation of their own asininities, immoralities and bestialities.
Take Rohee. Rohee is unable to curb his excessive excursions into shocking nonsense. Come the next press conference, Rohee is going to be so outlandish that the press will give his idiocy much coverage, and immediately one forgets what happened at the PNC congress.
Take Luncheon, now given the nickname, “the feral man,’ after his description of Minister Manickchand’s attack on the outgoing US Ambassador as “feral.” Luncheon irritates this nation when he opens his mouth and he does that more than once a week. Luncheon, like Rohee, is locked up in the prison of irrationality. At his next press conference, some feral attack will be made on the opposition or the Guyanese people that will be so upsetting that no one will want to be reminded of what took place at the PNC’s congress.
Take Ramotar. It is becoming sad to see what Ramotar is becoming. Surely a President can be evasive or devious when answering the press but at all times he must avoid coming over as a bumbling, unthinking, silly leader. Each time the media requests a position of Ramotar on the NCN report, there is a response that makes you feel that this President just doesn’t have presidential qualities.
When asked again this week about his attitude to the NCN probe, he replied that the report is on the internet and can be read. Ramotar knows fully well that he is being questioned on what action he will take on the recommendations. Who cares if the report is on the net to be read? It is what the President is going to do with the recommendations against the culprits. When Rohee, Luncheon and Ramotar behave like this in front of the Guyanese people, then the troubles in the PNC fade from memory. And they will keep behaving like that right up to the next general elections.

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