As the election gets closer the war of words from the leaders of the PPP seem to get more crass.
The most recent tirade was from the minister of health Bheri Ramsarran to a female who had made a rebuttal to one of his statements while in a public meeting.
As the election gets closer the war of words from the leaders of the PPP seem to get more crass.
The most recent tirade was from the minister of health Bheri Ramsarran to a female who had made a rebuttal to one of his statements while in a public meeting.
“Shut yuh mouth and get out ma face”. He went on to call her an “idiot” and continued to say, “get the hell out my face”, “F off”, “little piece of shit”, “I would slap her ass just for the fun”, “I can have some woman strip her here”.
All of this is being said as the PPP/C is asking Guyanese for their vote.
There has been a significant lowering of the standard of discourse in society over the last 23 years. The debasement in society seemed to have entrenched itself in every aspect of culture and sadly from the very top, at the President’s level and throughout the current ruling party’s entire political structure.
It appears the PPP has embarked on a scorched earth mentality, searing opponents and people who question them with name calling and cuss-outs.
Our young people should be aspiring to serve their country but if those that are currently at the helm have set the bar so low it appears that the socially and economically upwardly mobile will have to seek different pastures.
In 1992, the PPP was given a clean slate by the citizens of Guyana to shape Guyana’s future. After 23 years the best conversation they can have with the people of Guyana is to denigrate the opposition by conversing only in tones that were once reserved only for the lowest of the low. Coupled with their focus on people and events of over 30 plus years ago, this has the appearance of a party who is clutching at straws.
If the PPP/C were confident of their successes in Guyana they would spend time relaying to the citizens their accomplishments, but we hear very little of that positive conversation.
I do hope that there will be a change in rhetoric and the “scorched earth” campaign against people’s character is not extended to the wellbeing of citizens, economy, government property, infrastructure or else. The current verbal tirade can be viewed as provocation to incite unrest and smacks of the last gasp of a floundering campaign.
Losing an election honorably is less complicated than having to traverse the judicial system after a scorched earth loss.
