Masochism and the inexplicable mind: The nature of the PPP voter

Aug 08, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I don’t know who Leon Suseran is. But from what I gathered from reading his opinions in the newspapers, he is a real person with that name. I have read several letters by him in the press, one of which caught my interest. He made the point that one of his letters on the unbearable numbers of blackouts in Berbice was completely blacked out by the Guyana Times and the Chronicle.
I did a column on that incident. It was intended to open the eyes of Suseran. My point was that Suseran should learn from what the pro-government newspapers did to him and face the reality as to what the PPP leaders really are – people with deep authoritarian instincts. In my essay, I expressed hope that Suseran would now desist from his pro-government opinions.
He sent in a missive in response to my column (“More needs to be said about the daily suffering of the Guyanese –KN, July 23, 09) and intoned that; “Mr. Kissoon can look as hard as he wants, but he won’t be finding much more letters in support of this government in these columns.”
Now read this from the same Suseran in KN, August 2, 09 (“Our nation is once more at political crossroads”); “When all is said and done only the PPP can run this country – no other party.
“They are, like it or not, the best of the worst; the lesser of two evils. And we Guyanese, like it or not, must accept and live with that reality.” Can you believe this gentleman? Really harsh words should be used to describe him.
The masochism gets worse when I spoke to an East Indian lecturer in the Department of Economics at UG on Wednesday morning. In discussing the spy equipment scandal with him, I exclaimed that East Indians have to break with the PPP. The man, with in infinitesimal smile on his face, quietly spoke and said, “But there is no alternative.”
This is a university trained economist who has spent the last seventeen years in Guyana watching some of the world’s worst and most incompetent politicians destroying his work-place and his country and could inquire of me as to who are the alternatives. If this economist could think like that, then he is admitting that we are the most uneducated nation in the world.
We are so devoid of intelligent and educated people that a cabal of hopelessly incompetent nincompoops is the best standard we have in political functionalism.
So what is the explanation? Both Suseran and the UG economist are victims of a masochistic mind. It is the downfall of Guyanese Indians and unless they purge their psyche of this psychological sarcoma, they will continue to vote for the PPP and soon after trek to the US Embassy and Canadian High Commission where they will be humiliated.
The next journey is self-destruction where illegal entry to any English-speaking country is sought. And movie time comes around when they are hunted down like cattle in the uncivilised hours of the morning before the sun can wash away from their face the hopelessness that inheres in their psychology and place like herds in a police van heading back to the country where the PPP are God’s sacred children.
Readers must understand that Suseran and the UG economist know that in a modern world, it is taboo to say. “I want my race to rule over other cultural groups because my race is better.” So they resort to an exasperating stratagem – there is no alternative party to the PPP so we should accept them even with their faults. This is vintage Ravi Dev. Many moons ago, I wrote that if political tsunamis are destroying Guyana, Dev will take his pen and write about the architecture of San Marino. Do you see how he carefully avoids in his weekly column, the PPP’s ocean of scandals?
Dev’s politics is subtle – “The PPP is corrupt and terrible; we know that but after all the PPP is we people and we people are ruling so we betta na change duh or else de black man will get in.”
The point is that any party is better than the PPP. Yes, Corbin may have used up all his political credibility but the PNC has scores of competent people that can do a better job. The Alliance for Change has superb quality in its leadership. What a shameless thing to say that no other party is better than the PPP to lead Guyana.
You mean to lead Guyana yes but lead where? To the bottom of our neighbour – the Atlantic Ocean.

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