Well…your Eyewitness survived the Father’s Day hoopla and is ready to face the coming elections – and whatever it brings. Now, there could be all sorta happenings, but the elections loom very large in your Eyewitness’ sight, if you don’t mind. The reasons for this “tunnel vision” aren’t hard to find, are they? Ever since he was a snot-nosed, knobby-kneed tyke in short pants, troubles and elections went together!! And just like the sun rising ever morning he wakes up – and he expects that to continue – he’s concluded trouble’s gonna accompany elections!! It’s just the way things are in good, ole Mudland!!
But the Father’s Day festivities reinforced a nagging feeling that maybe he shouldn’t be so fatalistic. After all, while the sun rose every morning for every person on planet earth, the same wasn’t true for elections and trouble in every other country. Trinidad and Suriname next door both had elections – and their governmens were changed – and yet NO troubles!! Not even a hut or hamlet torched!! Father’s Day also reminded your Eyewitness that since he’d done more than his bit to bring some new bodies and souls – quite a few, if the truth be told, “inside” and “outside”! – into that aforesaid Mudland after his short-pants days, maybe he shouldn’t be too complacent about the concatenation of elections and troubles!!
He HAD been exhorted to leave the world a better place than the one he found – innit? So what can he do?? Well, there ain’t much he can do about the ELECTIONS! Those give him an opportunity to choose who would steer the ship of state – so he could put his X on a party which at least doesn’t stir up elections trouble. So, which is the “trouble-making” party?? Looking at our elections through the years – there is no other conclusion to reach than “the PNC”!!
O eliminate your Eyewitness’ bias, let’s look at the evidence from the beginning in 1953!! The PPP of Jagan and Burnham had won our first elections – but Burnham immediately created factions in the party by insisting that he – rather than Jagan – should be Premier!! After the Brits ousted the PPP government – and signaled the kinda party they wanted to govern – Burnham split the PPP and launched the PNC to be THAT party!! And in a nutshell, that’s the cause of our troubles linked with elections!!
Jagan and the PPP had the votes to win elections – while Burnham and his PNC had the cunning to suck up to the Brits while instigating “troubles” in the form of arson, murder, beating, riggings etc. to keep out the PPP!!
Your Eyewitness gotta do his bit to keep out he PNC!! Will you join him??
…on latest war
One hard-earned lesson your Eyewitness learnt is starting a war ain’t never less than twice as hard to stopping one!! And usually, it’s many times harder!! That’s been true with the last two wars in Ukraine and Gaza where the Ruskies and Hamas – who started them – thought it’d be looong over!! So what about the latest war – launched when Israel defied defy the doctrine formed after Napoleon’s disastrous second front against the Ruskies – between Israel and Iran??
Israel was super confident its cyberattack on Iran’s air defense system would keep it out of operation for several days – by which time they would completely obliterate the Persians! But Iran got it back up in 10 hours and so now Iran’s not only hitting Israel pretty hard – but not taking too much damage. The question now is – with wars now dominated by missiles – how long will supplies of the same, last for both sides.
US supports/supplies Israel and Russia and China supports Iran!!
…on Trump
We know Trump’s a “Fake it ’till you make it” kinda guy!! So having taken credit for ending the flareup between India and Pakistan; working on the one between Ukraine and Russia; is the next “success” Israel-Iran??
