Believe me my (more regular) friends, after today I’ll do my utmost to avoid this theme and issue for an extended period.
What issue? It’s one that I should be able to unravel with the numerous views, analyses and answers given so frequently by very educated minds. The issue? The intrigue of mine? It’s the usual: Why do our electoral tribes, our (alleged?) “racial voters” still vote to elect those who were obviously guilty of massive corruption in executive offices to enrich only themselves, to the exclusion of the needy voters who had catapulted them into those lucrative opportunities?
What a long question! And I have studied quite a few explanations, rationales. They range from ethnic security in numbers and power when your own “is in office and authority; to the dubious comfort of discriminatory opportunities for your own; just plain racial preference; fear of the others – APNU, PNC, GDF, Police, GRA et al; psychological influence; of both party/racial loyalty – and ethnic/economic triumphalism. So why do I still agonise over the fact that a