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Reply to "Dr Hinds is WRONG on several counts...in my humble opinion"

D2 posted:
VishMahabir posted:

I am no doctor but from what I know so far about Guyana politics, I share these opinions....some of these are conjectures and my own biases..there are obviously knowledgeable people here who know a lot more than me...hopefully I can learn from them:

1) Firstly, Hinds is not Ogunseye, intellectually, predispositionally or politically. Hinds is a Guyanese nationalist with open ended views. Ogunseye is a pan africanist with narrow afrocentric views. Hinds is not PNC and is not liked within those political circles. Hinds is always interrogating the political beliefs of the society and as such not a natural fit for the PNC. They prefer ideological knee benders.

Any Guyanese government operating under this constitutional system that awards to the President autocratic powers is inevitably seduced to the dark side of power expression. This include rent seeking, ethnic preference, political oppression and an active will to curtail freedom of the Press. That will be magnified.ffart is Jagdeo’s pony.  Jagdeo engineered the selection process to narrow the scope of candidates and advised the pulling out of two candidates so as to make the outcome binary and predictable. I

 

2) Jagdeo is on record of saying constitutional reform which will weaken the PPP’s position in an electoral battle is not going to happen on his watch. Since the system is torqued for ethnic preference and argued on a group level that the state is an ethnic prize then any position that seek to preserve that is philosophically about ethnic dominance. This is not a rendering of Hind;s bias but what is observational from any perspective because it is baked in and one of the reason we are trapped in ethnic based politics.What Hinds is on record of saying is that he believes Shuman’s entry may thwart this ethnic zero sum proposition and Guyana will have minority governments by any group winning a plurality.

The PNC has no influence on the PPP in constitution reform, They could not make the PPP move when an international edict to reform the constitution existed and it was easiest. The PPP waited that time out period promised out execute reforms and perform self serving cosmetic changes. Further, they engineered the dual citizen exclusion rule and the residency rule to vote because they do not want to contend with open mindedness of the diaspora mediating local politics.

The PPP will not reform the constitution and as usual the PNC will do their best to veto their autocratic rule with violence. This is not because the PNC is violent but because this the inevitable path of majoritarian systems as ours. The stakes are higher now that the prize include vast resources.

 

3) Jagdeo has failed completely in his management of the economy. The illusionary wealth of the parallel underground economy wrought of all sorts of nefarious trade had a PPP wink wink wink. It is not successful management principles. Every industry failed and no new one was created. He give away to friends and associates much of the nations physical and natural assets. The illusion of wealth  accretion in indian hands made Indians feel insecure.

Africans on the other hand were discounted to the point that Goebbels Misir was commissioned to write a 50 page dissertation peppered with dense statistics to repudiate african claims to marginalization. The face of that fell apart in court when Jagdeo stupidly sue Freddie and had his administration deposed and torn apart for their racist tropes.

4) This man is repulsive to the intelligentsia...both black and Indian so there will be considerable defection here and the PPP cannot lose numbers anywhere since they only have a 10 percent numerical cushion in the pure ethnic vote. That is already at a 10 point deficit for a victory which means keeping the Amerindian vote and leeching a minimum of 5 percent of the mixed vote. Ifart, a universally despised man in those circles makes that a difficult proposition. Straight race based voting is not sufficient to win these days.

5) Ali’s youth is negated by the reality that he is already a magnet for easy tag-lines about corruption and ethnic nepotism. One does not have to reach far for those since there bags full of them lying around and everyone knows them well. He is only second to jagdeo it the estimation of rent seeking porkers in the PPP ranks. Worse, if anyone would to assess the infinite possibility for their life, nowhere among the choices is there a natural option of saying, "I want this fellow to be a part of my life's experience". He is toxic.

6) The society is vertically segmented by religion and the strongest segregating lines is Muslim/Hindu. Both are exogamous and the cultural taboos that exists comes with severe social sanctions. Where these are broken (and rarely so) it is with weakly religious families or Muslim/Christian families. Culturally they are the same people but that does not do much except as counting numbers for political advantages. Hinds speaks to what he sees exists; political alliance of the groups. It is however no sublimation of religious difference. They do align on politics and on the pseudo ethnic tableau of land of origin.  

This is is exactly what it appears to be;,  two corrupt fellows deciding to continue the heist of Guyana’s assets. Both are already experts at the task and so are already kindred spirits. Ask Asgar Ali, a man better positioned morally and religiously and nationally to have been an example of expression that the  two groups can forget religious lines . They cut him down at the knees for no other reason than the commonly heard phrase in indo communities...dont trust the fulla man.

Thanks....this is a lot to digest...

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