Worried about the PNP? Worry about Jamaica!

 The question I always ask about every development is Jamaica is: Who benefits? Who will benefit if the PNP like some zombie rises from the grave? The amount of us who reject both parties is over 60%. The number of us who reject the PNP is in the region of 80% of registered voters and close to 90% of the potentially eligible electorate some of whom don't even bother to register. What will it take for the PNP to die and go away? Ninety nine per cent rejection? When will the PNP do the nation a big favour and just die and go away? The people are doing their best by turning their backs on the political establishment. Many young people are voting with their feet and leaving the island permanently. Others look to their loved ones in the diaspora to keep them fed, clothed and housed. The rest turn to gangs and other forms of informal activities to survive. The media keeps enabling the PNP talking nonsense about needing them as the Opposition in the House when they were useless in the last session. The media keeps talking about the need for the PNP to 'rise'. We don't want the PNP to rise, we want the PNP to die out. Why do we think that political parties are sacred cows that must last forever? We have fought off the effects of the orange Kool-Aid. The green Kool-Aid is next. Under Norman Manley, the PNP played its part in national development. Since then, we have just had a bunch of smiling ginnals, conmen and thieves in the PNP. We want a new kind of politics that is not so tribalistic, less corrupt and politicians who are honest with us. Most of us are wise to the game now. Hopefully, the PNP can't con us again. The PNP has lost their credibility. How many more election cycles will it take for these commentators in the media and the PNP/JLP tribalists on this forum to realize that the days are numbered for the continuation of the kind of politics currently going on - the clientelism, the fight for political spoils, a place at the trough? Like the political gunmen of the 70s, yu betta find a new line of work. The PNP has not and will not change its spots. The PNP continues to be corrupt and practice Samfie politics. The PNP is only about gaining power for their own interests. My sources tell me the PNP is broke. The private sector should just put the PNP out of its misery and starve it of funds so that in cooperation with civil society Mr. Holness can be influenced to make the fundamental changes that need to be made and form a Government of National Unity. If the economic and political elite think that the status quo is sustainable they can certainly go ahead and try. If they think that because Mr. Holness now has a large majority in the House they can increase the rape of the treasury without consequences, I predict a surprise. I predict that we have reached a tipping point. There is a limit to how much social and economic pressure that emigration can release.

Just because a government is elected does not guarantee good government. Hitler was elected. Neither does the vote that citizens exercise in elections confer political wisdom on those chosen to govern. Left to themselves, the politicians will be preoccupied with retaining their own power through the ballot box and feeding at the trough. That is the nature of the beast. They cannot be left to themselves. There has to be constant oversight to keep them accountable and the politicians will not implement this without serious pressure from civil society. Now is not the time to ease up the pressure on the JLP. This is why I am so disappointed with how certain private sector groups are just congratulating and patting Mr. Holness on the back.

Our government has been captured by a political elite acting in concert with their cronies in the private sector. To retrieve our government, civil society will have to unite and rise up against such an elite and force them to make the changes to ensure that Jamaica becomes more just and less unequal. The lesson from history is if this does not happen, then you end up with high crime and other forms of antisocial behaviour and/or a revolution. So, let's stop worrying about the PNP, let's worry about our country.