One has to be a moron to optimistically ask how has Kamla performed as leader of the opposition and obviously expecting an A+ answer just based on the presumption of the question. This question came from one of her sycophants who fiercely and rabidly is one of her defenders.
Adding to what Dostoevsky said regarding idiots, Franz Kafka noted, ‘One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.’ When one person lies, it remains an isolated untruth. Even when two people lie, it still falls within the realm of individual dishonesty. However, when ten thousand people engage in deception, it transcends mere falsehoods and takes on a collective dimension—akin to the workings of a political party1. Kafka’s insight underscores the power of mass deception and its impact on society.
In our complex world, where truth and falsehood intermingle, understanding the dynamics of lies becomes crucial. Whether it’s an individual’s fib or a web of political deceit, the consequences ripple far beyond the initial act of deception23.
It is bewildering that there are persons out there who are more concerned with Kamla holding on to the UNC leadership and not bothered at all that being opposition leader was a stepping stone to becoming PM; that being the greatest opposition leader in the world mattered not if the next step you made did not open sesame and the door to the office of the PM for you.
As leader of the opposition there is simple political algorithm to follow. Firstly, you must make yourself out to be the alternative government waiting its turn. If you had packed your party with nonentities, with sycophants and crapauds, you still had the chance to redeem yourself and the image of the party by reaching out to charismatic heavyweights who make up the intelligentsia of the society but who reside outside the party’s black hole where intellectual scrutiny is a no-no.
Just the fact that Wade Mark is completing 10 long years as a UNC Senator gives Kamla a black tick for imagination. The Senate should be the nursery for political parties whereby they recruit the best and the brightest among us, blood them, allowing them to get the name and face recognition so that when screening time comes around you have a cadre of potential candidates to choose from that you don’t have to scrape the bottom of the barrel and come up with a Barry Padarath or Wade Mark.
Has Kamla done anything like that? She hasn’t because she is going to continue her policy of favouritism, nepotism, cronyism just to give preference to those she plays footsie and other under the table games with. Kamla is not interested in winning the election as long as she has her morons as her cheerleaders and they are not seeing this as there are none so blind as those who will not see. It has truly been said, a country gets the leaders it deserves.
L. Siddhartha Orie