To cast pearls before swines is a warning from Christ’s sermon on the Mount that you’ll waste something precious by offering it to someone who has no appreciation of what is good. So what might be honey to one person might be poison to another.
What follows here might sound cliché, repetitive, but I make no apologies for it because I feel the need to inform the sycophants of the UNC that yes, they could win this election as easily as they could lose it as they did in the previous two. I agree that the PNM has done everything that proves it has no perception about political governance; that it is informed by the bow and arrow thinking of the jungle where planning is substituted by hunting and storage for another day is made in the stomach.
In short, the PNM culture is live for today and tomorrow shall take care of itself. But with the Indians there is a complete difference. Save something for tomorrow, a rainy day is their existential philosophy; and while the PNM is finishing off today whatever comes before their gluttonous eyes, Indians know if they get a chance to utilise whatever they could salvage, they could take it and biblically multiply it 70 times 7.
That being a fact, UNC supporters are optimistic that they could roll back the PNM apocalypse and regain paradise and make us the region’s Singapore in a flash. However, there is a problem: Kamla! Because Kamla defeated Basdeo in 2010, she suffers from megalomaniacal delusions of grandeur. In 2010, anybody could have defeated Panday as he had become such a piece of passe cassava and credit I give here to Kamla for entering the arena ahead of men more competent but who lacked the testicular fortitude of the Jedi warrior. I say this here because as speechwriter to some of them, I advised them, suggested it to them, but you know all these wussies said they needed Panday’s anointment even though I tried to tell them that Bas had nothing more to give. Enter Kamla, then not because of anything transcendental about her but because Panday’s ship had sailed.
Kamla deludedly believes that it was her per se people voted for and not the UNC. Her defeat five years later when she projected herself as the maximum leader, as Thatcher, as Indira Gandhi, and boasted up at MOKA that she chose the party’s candidates in anticipation of victory, proves that she was already a diminished leader who had her one term and must know her place at the back of the line. But she continues to delude herself courtesy her NATEX sycophants who dare not tell her, Ma’am, you are surrounding yourself with dumped oyster shells not 24 carat pearls.
Do you know taste is something you acquire from an evolved taste bud as is the sense of colour from a sense of aesthetics and under-evolved you mix up colours for example and like Sindoora thinks yellow is red?
The point: So many bright and charismatic persons around and just you wait and see the Labbarjabbar list Kamla has up her bosom waiting to unleash at the last moment when it is too late to throw out.
I am saying that a final vetting body must have a last look at the names of UNC candidates and whatever Kamla chooses must not be irreplaceable knowing she is going to step on the cake and spoil an easy victory.
L. Siddhartha Orie