Also, I am a scientist not a liberal arts dilettante..
Well maybe that is your problem as you don't know that humans don't work like machines and cannot be reduced to algorithms.
There is a risk which must be identified and acknowledged. Once this is done there must be strategies to mitigate this risk, and then this must be communicated to people.
Humans act based on emotion, and the most powerful emotion is fear, especially in a society like Guyana where people see themselves as being powerless. And where they feel that they lack an ability to defend themselves against powerful interests. But yet feel very vulnerable to these forces. So they cling to the "tribe".
True in 1992, when most Africans voted PNC and not WPA. Will be true in 2015 when most Indians will vote PPP and not AFC....The trick is to woo enough to vote AFC and you don't do this by disrespecting them. Because the PPP didn't need Africans to win. APNU AFC will have to have some Indians to win.
Sorry if you think that is whining. Now go back to your computer programming but understand that we are dealing with humans. You cannot program humans to do what you wish them to do. They act on their own free will, and often quite irrationally when it is based on fear. Just ask the impoverished souls of Mississippi why they voted for a man who damned most of them as "Takers".