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Jan 14, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
There wasn’t anyone, and I would think that included God himself, that could have convinced Desmond Hoyte in 1992 that he would have lost the election.
The clincher for Mr. Hoyte was that he had achieved magic; he democratized, brought in perestroika, and appealed to East Indians.
The fatal flaw in Hoyte’s thinking was that he never studied Guyanese sociology and politics. It just wasn’t as simple as he thought it would be. Guyana was (and is) much more complex than that. Hoyte was naïve to think that Indians would have balloted for him.
They appreciated what he had done, but deep in their hearts (not me, I swear on my family, I voted for the WPA), Indians wanted to give Jagan a chance and Jagan had the numbers.
The mind of Desmond Hoyte had currents swirling inside of it that we mortals could not understand.
The identical situation exists inside the PPP, where there is a war among goats for the presidential slot for the 2015 general elections. But when minds are trapped in illusions, delusions and exist beyond imagination, ordinary people cannot comprehend how these minds work.
Bharrat Jagdeo is convinced that the PPP is invincible and therefore the PPP will win a majority. He wants Ramotar to run again, because he knows Ramotar is 100 percent controllable by him, Jagdeo.
Ramotar on the other hand deeply believes in his mind that his three years have been good enough for people to vote for him again.
Inside the minds of both Jagdeo and Ramotar, there are no reflections on why the PPP lost the majority in 2011. The answer is there – people loved the PPP, thought they would have won, and didn’t bother to vote. Here is Hoyte all over again. Jagdeo and Ramotar, like Hoyte, didn’t study Guyana’s sociology. It is not as simple as that, but Jagdeo’s and Ramotar’s minds are made up.
There is the goat-man. The goat-man looks at his age, his service to the PPP and the closing horizons that are nearby, and has declared that his time to be the president has arrived. If he wins the presidency, then his story would be a historical uniqueness. He came from rags, shaped the PPP, led the PPP, and now he is president.
It is important to note that like Jagdeo and Ramotar, this caprine politician (no insult intended for I am a goat too, my zodiacal sign is Capricorn) believes the PPP will win, and therefore he must be president. Acting on this instinct, this caprine clown (no insult intended; just offering my opinion) is opposing Ramotar. Unlike others who are afraid that Ramotar will not galvanize Indians, the goat-man believes that the PPP will win with anyone, so it is his turn to be the President of Guyana.
There are others in the PPP whose minds do not have the same contents as Jagdeo, Ramotar and de goat-nah-bite-meh-maan.
They think that the PPP is facing its greatest electoral challenge and that Ramotar is so devoid of charisma, rhetoric, energy and accomplishments that the PPP may lose both the majority and plurality with Ramotar. The sentiments are falling like rain, as in January 2005 when Guyana went through the Great Flood, that Ramotar should be replaced.
The confusion inside the PPP is while the goat-man is campaigning against Ramotar, the others do not want the caprine fellow, because they feel he is even more unelectable than Uncle Donald. What you have in the PPP then is a three-way race. There is the Jagdeo/Ramotar partnership; the goat-man opposing that partnership; and the young Turks who are rejecting both the partnership and the goat-man.
Who is going to get the prize? If I were to guess I would say Ramotar. The PPP is virtually a Jagdeo toy. Mr. Jagdeo has effectively demolished the PPP as it was from 1957 to 2002.
It was at that point he began to dominate the PPP and change its chemistry. If it comes down to a vote in the Executive, which is a fifteen-person unit, the goat-man and the young Turks do not have the numbers.
There will be no voting inside the PPP for a presidential candidate. This is not the nature of the PPP. In 2011, Mr. Ramkarran fell through the floor after he saw how Jagdeo anointed Ramotar. It will be the same in 2015.
The goat-man can bleat how much he wants. The PPP was never even remotely a democratic party. The oligarch, as in a banana republic, is going to ride into Freedom House and pick his man. That man will be Ramotar.
Where is the BETTER MANAGEMENT/RENEGOTIATION OF THE OIL CONTRACTS you promised Jagdeo?
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