Originally Posted by caribny:What astonishes me about redux is how much time he spends attacking fellow anti PPPites. Merely because they exercise a pragmatism while he is lost in idealism.
1. The coalition is a risk. Firstly because some of the PPP Nagamootoo voters who supported him in 2011 might vote PPP, or simply not vote. Unable to bring themselves to voting for a PNC led coalition.
Secondly because in any coalition there are always tensions between the bigger and more powerful party, and the smaller one. In Guyana it becomes even worse as some people like Nagamootoo saw some in the PNC as mortal enemies for most of their political life.
2. Kari has always spoken about Guyana's economy being taken to the next level. He is saying that he hasn't heard APNU AFC plans for this. Is there anything wrong with some one querying about Guyana no longer remaining a basic commodity producer, subject to all the vagaries of global commodity prices, over which it has no control?
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I feel confident that if either Granger or Nagamootoo engaged us in conversation, we would raise the same concerns, more diplomatically of course. Indeed Granger seems to spend much of his time on meet and greet tours, and seems to listen to people. I suspect of people offered suggestions in a polite manner he would listen to them.
You are a whiner...glass is half full kind of guy. You will never see the brighter side that this is the most powerful moment to transition our society out of a 70 decades long racial stasis.
Pragmatism is not about whining that you do not see this or that. It is a balance about the benefits to come given what you know. You know Constitution reforms is on the table, local government elections, procurement commission and a revised AML bill and all promised in the first 100 days. Then there is the forensic audit of NICIL, NBS, and grand pirate schemes like the Marriott, Berbice river bridge and complete overhaul of Amalia not to mention reform in our forestry sector.
These are monumental changes. Selling this is the key and returns on it is pure political gold. It is easy to grasp, it is sell able and it is real. People can get it digest it and react viscerally because it the immediacy of its impact is there.
Add to that the Coalition has an attentive audience. You worry about the minutia not the big picture. But then again, that is your disposition. If you see caster oil and creme brulee you would take the caster oil knowing for sure you need a cleansing vs thinking you need a tasty treat. The fact that there is nothing such as a cleansing will not even intervene to mediate your persistent your morose pessimistic disposition