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Reply to "There has been a democratic renewal, change is coming’- President Granger"

D2 posted:

What I find strange and disgustingly so is the preoccupation of everyone here with ethnic numeric superiority of one side or the other. There is no discussion on policies on democracy and on general fairness. That these things can only come about with dramatic changes to our thinking is all but forgotten. This paradigm of political power by race is our disease.

I disagree . . . it is a sensible "preoccupation" . . . not strange at all, and not necessarily about "superiority"

In our democratic political set-up, numbers are dispositive . . . only political naifs would avert their eyes

and let me be even more frank

those numbers are part and parcel of a racial right-to-rule notion that has underpinned the hubris of significant post-Cheddi ethnic 'nationalist' thinking in the PPP, leading directly to a malign Bharrat Jagdeo

non-PPP opposition parties have always known that the kind of power politics (in a winner-take-all democracy) based solely on race is a loser for them . . . check the history

Burnham wanted all/absolute power, but the numbers were against him; this is why he rigged and became a dictator

perhaps a growing Amerindian population and serious constitutional change providing coalitions after elections as a major plank will crowd out the primitive environment and open up Guyana to the kind of politics you (and I) hope for

FM
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