BY now most Guyanese would know that I am no spring chicken. I have been active in social activism and media commentary for decades and decades now. I started in politics as a PPP polling agent in 1968 and I have chalked up 36 consecutive years in the newspaper business and 26 consecutive years as a UG lecturer.

Against that backdrop, I know Guyana and its contents. I am a lucky man. When you grow up in poverty in a low-income area, you acquire street sense. When you combine street sense with intellectual capacity it equips you to detect, in very astute and subtle ways, the nuances of the substance of Homo sapiens.

I know the players of this country and I will write the words to follow this line over and over. A large number of people in politics, civil society, the media and in academia who have been criticising the Government of Guyana since Dr. Ali presidency was born in August 2020 are morally unacceptable people who are far more deficient in moral character than the governmental actors they criticise.

These people are far more narrow-minded, snobbish, vindictive, racially driven, selfish, uncaring and inhuman than all of the major political players in the PPP leadership. I am getting on in life but once I have a finger (I type with one finger), and a keyboard I will write about them.

And how do I know about these people? Because of 26 consecutive years teaching at UG, 57 years in active politics and 36 years in journalism. This experience has shown me the true colours of people, (using colour in both senses of the word).

We hear the incessant criticism of government ministers being vindictive, narrow-minded, unaccountable, incestuous, self-opinionated and narcissistic. We never hear about those traits in many figures in many leading organisations. Vindictiveness, narrow-mindedness and self-opinionated traits, incestuousness are children’s playthings when compared to the deeply embedded instincts of psychological autocracy in many civil society persons, the media and among status-laden players.

If I go the route of this column that I would like to, trust me the libel writs will be in the dozens. It is the reason why I cannot do an exposé of these people in my memoir. Guyana will acquire a mountain of knowledge if I should write my memoir. Do you know the vast information someone has that has been around for over 57 years?

I find it both amusing and agonising when I pick up the newspapers or read on social media that government must consult the people, government lacks accountability, government is discriminatory. I know these people; they have no moral authority to judge any member of the Government of Guyana.

I am the first to admit that ministers and PPP party officials are not without their faults. But don’t tell me about those people when you are worse humans than they are. There are dark dimensions to the people and organisations that have been on a rampage against this government since the inauguration of President Ali in August 2020.

I am unambiguous about the societal compartments I am dealing with here; I am not writing about the opposition parties only. I am referring to well-known personalities in the middle class, civil society and the media. There are innocent souls out there who can be fooled by these constant sermons of these people.

These flawed humans have absolutely no right to criticise governance in Guyana today when they do not know what moral and legal obligations are. You enumerate the degenerate minds of these people and you analyse each flaw in their make-up and immediately you would run to the ballot box and put your X in favour of the PPP.

What are some of the psychological contortions of these people? The list includes middle-class racism and middle-class snobbery; multi-dimensional exploitation of other humans; barefaced lack of accountability in their public and personal lives; and moral double standards; I could go on but I think I have made my point.

The thrust of this column here is about sections of this society that are opposed to the government but are far more flawed humans than the people with power that they criticise and I guess curious readers would like me to elaborate. I cannot because of the accusations of their moral turpitude.

It is simple to understand. If I cite an organisation or a newspaper, then those persons that belong to the entities can say that by extension I have accused them of immoral make-up. So, I cannot go into names. But this I will ask readers. Just ignore these huge hypocrites and their pretentious vocabulary about poor governance in Guyana. They should be the last to judge others.

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