A continuum of the disturbing

Mar 06, 2020 Editorial

Today the rowing is about the time it is taking to make public the final elections result. Tomorrow holds forth the promise to be about the usual squabbling over the result itself. It could be about its accuracy, its veracity, and its credibility. It could be about what is imagined and concocted for purposes of interfering with process and what results as its final product.
How can it not be this way when consideration is given to what is at stake? How can matters – emotions and expectations – be otherwise when so much is promised? How can the positions of the calculating and the unthinking, the reckless and the endangering, be different when all have a predetermined and pre-settled outcome, one only, uppermost in their limited scheme of contemplations?
The political situation in social Guyana is of one where there is no room left for reason, no space allowed for weighing anything that does not meet with what has been preset and embedded immovably in individual and group visions. It has to be this way, my way. It cannot be any other way allowed to grip, gather wing, and then take flight. Hence, there are only the stubborn rejections of anything and everything that clashes, no matter how mildly, with what overwhelms sight and sound and good sense.
The reports are muted, as most of the mainstream media is being commendably careful and responsible. But matters cannot be managed that tightly or that totally, as there are trickles of information that seep out and indicate that some mischief is afoot.
Things are on a slow, impatient boil right now with the tenseness growing by the hour and air thickening to the point where it is so palpable that it can be touched. The usual two political groups left standing from the still ongoing contest for ascendancy and power are due a significant amount of responsibility for their failure to manage themselves better. Both groups have pitched messages that can only be described as not too bright and definitely unhelpful to the maintenance of decorum and sobriety.
When the clashing assertions and positions are that victory has been achieved and is firmly in the bag, then it is but a short step to release the pent-up anxieties and let open the floodgates of celebration.
When political seniors throw caution and discretion to the Fates and are in the vanguard of such unwise developments, then the thin restraints of discipline and temperateness quickly fall apart and the lesser angels within, rise to the fore to take command of judgment and the actions that follow in short order.
As the nation hovers precariously on the edge of official delay, it is being stretched to a fever pitch and beyond the tolerable. As the expectant peoples of this group or the other one are bounced around by unofficial and – let it be said, irresponsible and immature – maybe even dangerous postures, there is no way that matters could lead to anywhere that is positive and wholesome to the wellbeing of this further torn, now more deeply suspicious, and increasingly angrier nation.
We are not only sowing confusion; we are fertilizing the soil with more discontent and disarray, and in a place that can ill-afford these ingredients. All that is cultivated and harvested are the poisoned fruits of sharp agitations and greater readiness to disregard whatever comes that does not match up with settled anticipations and conclusions. It is imperiling, and there is no minimizing that frankness.
For agents and followers are given message, incentive, and cover to run with the news and harden resolves that matters can only crystallize to one acceptable result only. When both sides remaining engage in tit for tat – not to be left behind, not to be silenced – exercises that perpetuate the same gross dereliction of duty and civility, then many rivers that cannot be re-forded are traversed. It leaves all in a bad place in the worst of times.

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