Coalition’s verbal gymnastics seem to have spread abroad

Dear Editor,

COVID-19 was impregnated from the fermentation of an unknown contagious virus and incubated in the “belly of the Devil,” giving birth to a pandemic that has grown into a colossal monster.

It is untamed and spreading out of control with devastating repercussions that are deadly, dangerous and damaging. The fervent race for a guaranteed cure is being aggressively pursued rigorously and vigorously. Seeded as the number one concern in most countries, it is nevertheless currently playing second fiddle to the concerted attention of a tense global audience. The November 3rd American presidential election has become “the apple of the eye” of the world and is precariously seated momentarily, on the precipice of marginal uncertainty.

At the time of writing, the cool, calm and collective Democratic Joe Biden was quietly enjoying a plausible lead over the contentious, chaotic and confounded Republican Donald Trump. The outcome is taking an automatic precedence and has leveraged an uneasy abeyance, forcing world leaders to refrain from various commitments, preferring to await the announcement of the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

How can the world forget Granger and his band of APNU+AFC merry rebels squatting in office for over a year and a half and holding Guyanese at ransom for five and a half months under political duress?

As the rigid counting of electorate votes continued meticulously, the light glimmers at the end of the tunnel, highlighted on a patient Joe Biden but with a pugnacious Donald Trump occupying the limelight. A strained, tired and provoked country is tormented with many turbulent social issues and is now being tested again for civility and tolerance.

An ashamed America has found itself in uncharted waters, uncomfortable and repulsive and would have preferred not to be caught in such a scandalous imbroglio. The “land of opportunity” where “dreams come true” has lost its credence for characterising “Only in America,” “Made in USA,” “US of A” and “Born in America.” These iconic slogans have slowly tarnished their luminous pride and have now been replaced with pessimism, tainted by skepticism and coated in cynicism. This sad situation has somewhat caught the rest of the world off guard, consumed with flavoured opinions, unhesitant in reactions and unabashed in comments. Guyanese would remember the unceremonious cursing out of the respectful national and international election observers by the blackguard APNU+AFC.

According to the “Business Insider,” Trump falsely declared victory early on Wednesday — with millions of votes still uncounted — and vowed to go to the Supreme Court to stop the vote count, in a move that mirrored the behaviour of dictators. President Donald Trump has challenged America’s democracy throughout his presidency, and he’s taking this to new conspiratorial heights as votes are still being counted in the 2020 election.

When leaders in other countries behaved the way Trump is behaving right now, the Trump administration condemned their behaviour and called on them to step down. Guyanese would fondly recall U.S. Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo, requesting then caretaker President Granger to step aside and allow democracy to prevail. Implementing sanctions in the form of visa restrictions finally ousted Granger and cabal to demit office and allow the legitimate swearing in of a duly elected President Irfaan Ali.

Top Republicans last Thursday blasted President Trump’s baseless claims that the election is being stolen from him through illegal actions by Democrats in swing states where votes are still being counted. Speaking from the briefing room, the president unloaded a dizzying array of unsubstantiated allegations about the electoral system and cast unwarranted suspicion on election workers as it appeared that Democrat Joe Biden is inching closer to victory.
Those distancing themselves from his outrageous and outlandish unscrupulousness include, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). Very few APNU+AFC party members and supporters have gained this noble respect to distinguish themselves with the decorum of conscious condemnation of APNU+AFC‘s monstrosities and atrocities and their blatant lies, dishonesty, corruption, collusion and attempted electoral fraud.

Halloween took a backward step this year and the coronavirus managed to scare even the ghosts and goblins away. But it did not fail to stop the redress of President Trump and his army of feisty protractors to fashionably masquerade themselves in transparent costumes revealing their devious determination, masking their faces with devilish ambition and parading in an affront of ghoulish charade, openly, unreservedly and obnoxiously.
This villainous and callous display has gained them the resentment of sober-minded, peaceful and respectful observers from many nooks and crannies in the world and from all corners where truth and honesty are not submerged by men and women of honour and integrity. Regard may be tolerated but certainly, respect has been lost and there is dim hope of replenishing any replacement, for, “once bitten, twice shy.”
The APNU+AFC coalition may never regain any tangible momentum to command support for loyalty and sincerity because of their disrepute for falsity, disloyalty and insincerity.

As the world turns restlessly holding its breath for the culmination of the U.S. election, the bold are becoming more beautiful, especially the young who are clamouring for the universe to be a better and safer place to live their lives. They are demanding that their voices be rightfully heard, their valid opinions be respected and their legitimate resolutions gain immediate attention without prejudice, unjustified questions and sarcastic remarks.

Leading from the front and walking the talk is Greta Thunberg, Times Magazine’s person of the year for 2019 (ousting a peeved Donald Trump). The 17-year-old Swedish environmental activist, internationally decorated and popular for her straightforward-speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticises world leaders for their failure to take sufficient action to address the climate crisis. It was payback time for her, but, certainly not music to the ears of Donald Trump or a welcome twit to his eyes, when she used his owns words against him.

Thunberg clapped back, writing on Twitter: “So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, and then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill!” she wrote. This generation certainly deserves a futuristic ball player who is contrived and not contrite in leadership, and who is affluent to influence with prominence in their eminence.

That is why the PPP/C has selected the elite few to propel Guyana’s future with a youthfully mature, energetic and academic team led by an exuberant but tenacious president, ardently supported by tried but not tired experienced exponents. The world needs to awake to a new economic global outlook, the end of a COVID-19 pandemic and the universal treatment of equality for humanity.

Respectfully,
Jai Lall