I WANT to believe that David Hinds’ social media programme, Politics 101, has become an item of entertainment. David is just mouthing off things that are so absurd that facetiousness takes over and people find David entertaining.

That does not auger well for the face of APNU. If the parliamentary opposition has a personality in its ranks that says comical stuff rather than intellectually curious opinions, then people will laugh. I had to do this column on David when I saw the caption for one of his social media outputs a few days ago.

He gave the programme the title, “We move tonight!” Unfortunately, David did not tell his viewers that he took that caption from the book by Ewart Layne, one of the founders of the Grenadian Revolution of 1979. Layne’s account of the revolution is titled, “We Move Tonight.” Is that plagiarism? I hope not.

The laughable thing about David’s exclamation is that he didn’t state who is “we” and where “we” are going when “we” move tonight. There are only two places David and his party APNU can move to. One is Timbuktu or WIN. Those are the only two places David and APNU can go.

WIN seems to be the likely port for the storm. APNU was moving towards WIN since the Adrianna Young drowning incident occurred last year in March. It was during that troubling time that the PNC moved to seek closer ties with Azrrudin Mohamed who later founded WIN.

There was an unwritten order in the PNC camp after WIN was born that WIN was not to be criticised publicly by PNC leaders. I guess political pundits knew who passed that edict. Other things were passed from WIN to the PNC during the Adrianna Young drama, but we will pass that to avoid hypocritical libel writs. APNU was moving so fast towards WIN that it surprised even seasoned political observers with the ease with which WIN was courting PNC constituencies.

David is on an irrational journey telling people that the victory of WIN was not evidence of racial cross-over. But he faced an embarrassing moment when he interviewed Dr. Vincent Adams on his Politics 101 programme. Adams described how African Guyanese reacted to Mohamed. He told David about the incident in Linden when a granny in her nightgown rushed after Mohamed.

So David, the PNC and APNU moved toward WIN after it was born, and that is where they are right now. In moving to WIN, there is a story that has not been told, and commentators have to tread carefully in releasing details about this story. As soon as Mohamed made his electoral ambitions known, top PNC people behind the PNC’s back began to help WIN.

So Guyana witnessed a ghoulish occurrence. Lawyers and other Guyanese that were publicly associated with the PNC had ongoing secret relationships with WIN. The rest is history. APNU moved so fast towards WIN that the ground beneath Congress Place shook.

Finally, after declaring that “we move tonight” on his show, David exclaimed that there must be a revolution in Guyana. But any school boy will tell you that revolutions are made by revolutionaries who have the embrace of the masses and strategic support from certain social classes. In Guyana those who want revolution are either seen by the masses as jokers or racists or have become the characters that Tennessee Williams wrote about.

It has to be an incredibly jumbie moment in politics in Guyana that people who want revolution are people that the masses will quickly chase away. So who will lead the revolution? Here are some facts. It cannot be Aubrey Norton. Over 100,000 Guyanese rejected him on election day, and the exodus from his party that started before the election continued after the election.

It cannot be David Hinds. He cusses down the PPP government in insane ways, describing them as the worst thing in the world, but just six months ago, Guyanese people rejected him in a national election. Do you know if Hinds had competed in the election on a WPA platform, he would have received three votes – himself, Tacuma Ogunseye, and Kadackie Amsterdam.

It has to be mental torment for those PNC stalwarts that did not make it to parliament. People like Mervin Williams must be making visits to the therapist. He was overlooked as a long-standing Amerindian politician for a parliamentary seat in preference to David Hinds. Please tell me how many votes David brought in at the last election.

So when David shouted, “we move tonight” because it is time for a revolution, who he had in mind to make the revolution? I know. He means Stabroek News. David does not know Stabroek News is dead.

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