by Christopher D.Lowe
This practice in reality is and has been bad news for the Bahamas, and has pretty much placed us in the dire circumstances we, as a country or population of people find ourselves in. We have elected, and acquiesced, to the wills and actions of fools, charlatans and false prophets who do not even bother to cloak themselves in the cloth of moral or ethical rectitude. But make no mistake, we are, and will continue to pay the price, as we chose the fools.
Running a country is no picnic, is not easy, and requires planning and foresight, something I think no one could deny we have, in hindsight, sorely lacked.
This is not to say that I, or the other fellow could or would do any better, this is to specifically say that those charged to do the job that they sought and obtained, have repeatedly failed almost completely, and ordinary citizens will have to clean up and make good what once was, a competent Bahamas.
We do not as a people hold ourselves accountable, and our successive political leaderships have leveraged this failure to their own personal advantage and profit.
We however, have accepted this, bought into this, and seldom protested this, so how could we expect any different result from what are effectively identical misfits who repeat each others mistakes ad nauseum?
A desperate politician, an apprehensive population filled with misinformation spoon fed meticulously is a recipe for continued strife in our society, which hurts only the general population, and not the political leadership.
Remember, we made the privileged, we exalted them, we placed them on the pedestals from which they issue edicts to bleed our collective will to make this country right, for if the Bahamas was made right, they would have no place in it, and certainly no power.
Sad really, because I firmly believe that we still, to this day, have such an incredible potential to effect change for the common good, and not just swap out the political poster children for doom and gloom newspaper headlines every five years.
We need decent people to lead, and lead by example, leadership we can not only follow, but trust, not the sort of choices between the lesser of two evils we have been forced to stomach.
I for one am wary of the despotic arbitrary and ill advised moves I see today and on the horizon, and some may say I am too harsh or critical, or to put it in local vernacular,
“What make him think he so much better than we?”
I will say this:
I abide by the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,
Owe allegiance to no political party or person, am in no ones pocket, do not aspire to political position, and as I write this, remain a conscientious Citizen who will not stand by and watch my rights be trampled underfoot, by men who would subjugate me to their will and purpose.
