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People like Trump and Jagdeo should never be elected

Nov 09, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

By the time you pick up this edition of KN, you would have known who clinched the American presidential election. I think it is Mrs. Clinton. People like Trump have no mental integrity, character stability and moral redemption to govern a nation.
I think the same of Bharrat Jagdeo. You cannot compare Trump and Jagdeo since Jagdeo exercised power – 12 years on his own, three through the surrogate role of Ramotar – and Trump hasn’t. But in life you have to judge people by their belief system. Trump and Jagdeo are steeped in philistine behaviour; it is a human requirement that such people do not rule over others.
Throughout history, people have been judged by their belief system. It is psychologically impossible for a Palestinian woman who wants Israel out of lands Palestinians claim as their homeland to marry an Israeli man who believes there should be no state for the Palestinians. It is impossible for a Jewish woman to marry a professor who thinks that the Hitler was right to treat the Jews the way he did. It is impossible for a feminist activist to be close to a red-neck man who thinks women should be housewives serving their husbands’ needs. It is impossible for a gay activist to vote for a politician who thinks homosexuality should be a crime punishable by imprisonment.
One’s belief system determines how one sees history, life, nature, the world, people, values, mores and traditions. Our belief system, whether based on emotions or objective perceptions of reality, is an essential part of the human being. There are lesser values which people hold that play no part in human relationships. For example, a person may think that boxing is a cruel sport even though her husband is a boxing fan. But fundamental values run deep and they make us who we are.
Trump has a belief system that is anathema to philosophy. He views women as sex objects. He thinks non-white people are not equal to the Caucasian race. He has no acceptance for State support for people who are victims of economic disadvantage. His view on such a situation is very Darwinian. Trump is crude, lacks urbaneness, and is happy with a philistine way of speaking and doing things.
Bharrat Jagdeo is a mirror reflection of Donald Trump. This country had 15 years of watching this man, and whereas Trump may succumb to the advice of the intellectual few around him, Jagdeo had no such company and even if he did, they could not have deterred him in his crude culture. This nation watched a president in loutish behaviour who surrounded himself with equally loutish philistines.
Jagdeo wallowed in the ubiquity of uncouth appointments. The list is too long to enumerate. He had no cultural background to force him to see that animalistic behaviour had no role in the administration of a country. “Killamaan” was never disciplined. When the subject was brought up, Jagdeo would laugh and say, ‘leave de maan alone.’ I have heard that from several persons close to the corridors of power.
The empowerment of Kwame McCoy by Jagdeo himself puts Jagdeo in a category far below that of Donald Trump.
Jagdeo’s fans would tell you that Jagdeo was invited to this and that international conference by this and that international figure so how could you refer to him as uncouth, untrained, lacking in refinement and culturally wanting. But ask those very international figures if they ever followed Guyanese politics for just one article in the newspaper and the answer would be no. You think the Board of Governors of Kent University in Canada that awarded Jagdeo a doctorate ever read anything about politics in Guyana. The answer is a reverberating no.
You think the Board of Governors of Fiji University knew about how run down UG became under the Pro-Chancellorship of Prem Misir? The answer is that before they employed Misir as their Vice-Chancellor in late 2015, they probably didn’t read one critical analysis of UG and one news item on the politics of Guyana. They read Misir’s CV and hired him.
You think the people at the Health Science Department of Harvard ever read anything on Guyanese politics before they offered Leslie Ramsammy a temporary teaching appointment? They probably never read a single line on Ramsammy’s role between 2002 and 2005 in the politics of extra-judicial mayhem. If Kwame McCoy types up an impressive CV and sends it to a PR firm in Italy, he will get employed. The Italians have no clue what went on in Guyana when McCoy faithfully served his fellow philistine – Bharrat Jagdeo

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