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Apr 21, 2018 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
How is it that Guyana is so ruthlessly torn along racial lines in our national politics? Because the socialist elites of our major political parties have benefitted from the science and study of psychology and politics.
Psychology involves the study of the way the mind works and examines the basis upon which people make decisions. Politics is about acquiring and maintaining power and control over a group of persons. In the hands of arrogant, self-serving individuals, politics and psychology can be used to effect virtually anything these so-called politicians desire. Because politics itself is devoid of conscience.
Our politicians have in the past used, and will continue to use all kinds of extreme and deceitful tactics to get Guyanese to vote for them. Using lies, fear and self-interest as motivators, Indian and African Guyanese have been herded into their separate groups for political ends since the formation of the People’s National Congress.
The PNC-led Coalition for instance, realizing that it could not win the 2015 elections with African Guyanese votes alone, formed a coalition with a host other minor political parties, and ultimately the Alliance for Change. The PPP, for its part, consistently instilled fear in their traditional Indian support base of African Guyanese.
This fear we all know is unfounded. Indian and African Guyanese do not have each other to fear, but the PPP and the PNC themselves, along with their failed politics and policies, which have brought many of us to the state of sophisticated beggars today.
The PNC for its part seems intent on digging the hole it started since it got into power, the same one it left in 1992, while the PPP is waiting to continue its oppression of Guyanese workers and its disregard for both sugar workers and rice farmers who suffered tremendously during the PPP’s latter years.
But the PPP would be the first to point out that the economy grew strongly during their last ten years of administration. While growth did in fact occur on account of higher rice and gold exports for example, this growth was also the result of internationally recognized reliance on narcotics and money-laundering during this very period, not to mention bloated government expenditures as a result of corruption. The PPP’s willful disregard of Parliament’s decisions should not be left unmentioned here.
The promise the PPP has for Guyana in 2020 is quite simple – a return to narcotics and money laundering, the rebuilding of their corrupt system of government which benefitted themselves and their crony companies, and a continuation of depressed welfares and the underpayment of workers, both public and private.
Also promised is the return of the gun-bashing government officials and a number of other ministers who have no qualms about slapping up a few Guyanese when words fail them. Naturally, these things they would never tell Guyanese. By 2020, GuySuCo will very likely be a skeleton of itself as it is right now very probably beyond recovery. This latter point should however be superseded by expert independent international opinion and final experience.
Only Guyanese can put an end to racial divisions drawn up for us by our political parties. It is time we did.
Yours faithfully,
Craig Sylvester.
Party Leader,
Democratic National Congress
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