Let the healing begin, people

May 15, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wish to caution over-exuberance in victory to whichever party is declared the victor in the recent elections and it looks like that party is the Coalition.
Magnanimity in victory is the way to go. I have been receiving reports of pockets of triumphalism emanating from areas where the PPP/C has/had a stronghold on the residents. If so, let truth be told that it is the Guyanese people who have triumphed and not any political party. These offenders and putative offenders must be told unequivocally – “cease and desist”.
Let not the spectre of ethnic triumphalism ever raise its ugly head again in this dear land of Guyana. Mind you, I do not blame the leaders of the Coalition for failing to curb the over-exuberance of small pockets of their supporters. They must be exculpated by reason of lack of knowledge but theirs is a continuing teaching process.
I wish to urge that the education of our electorate as to proper civic and political decorum should not end when the vote is cast.
The process of this aspect (and others) of political education should be a continuing one. Proper political and social etiquette should replace the culture of hate and malevolence and vulgar discourse.
The political spotlight shone on us for a while and its glare would have given the world the impression that we are a nation of cads and bounders in the highest reaches of the political kingdom. The level of political discourse and other breaches of conduct so indicates. We most certainly are not.
Let the healing begin.
James A. Patterson

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