Billy Ram Balgobin posted:More political parties is not the answer if the system of government is highly vulnerable to corruption and fraud. It is electoral fraud that kept Burnham in power for 21 years and angered the non-African populations to the max. It's a compromised justice system in which 80% of crimes are never solved and for those that are solved lenient sentences are given in addition to controversial presidential pardons of scores.
Listen banna, Burnhan rigged because of Aap and Jhaat! With the numbers against him, he saw that to be the only way and the US let it be because of Jagan's jackass politics.
As I said earlier, Guyana remains a zero-sum country between the PPP and the PNC. The ones who pay the price is the average citizen, Afro and Indo alike. Under the PNC days, as much Afros left as Indians and they suffered as much. Under the PPP rule, nothing changed, it's the same story. But the elites in the PNC and the PPP took care of each other very well. The only difference, who was in power was able to get rich really quick.
For anyone who says this is the best any society can expect under the guise of "democracy", well something must be fundamentally wrong with the notion itself.
Guyanese political psyche is very binary, PPP or PNC, Black or Coolie! A third party of well meaning politicians will break this mindset and the entire psyche will begin to fray at the edges. It's not a one cycle process and that's why I believe had the AFC stuck with the real 3rd party model, they would have continued to make inroads and establish itself as a credible political force in Guyana!