Integrity

Well, all the signs are there that this is going to be the nastiest, most destructive, if not most violent election we have ever faced. People appear willing to trade humanity and decency for position and power, hoping to parlay that trade into financial gain by any means necessary.

The underlying threat to our society is that we end up with the meanest and worst people as leaders instead of the brightest and the best, politics finding its own morality among the lowest of us all.
The downhill to destruction is mapped by people of like mind willing to destroy what they cannot control, and this is happening on both sides of the political racial divide even as I write this. There are activists who are no longer interested in contributing to our higher development, they being the first casualties in this war on integrity.
Mr. Manning is dug in and combative, rallying his troops for an all out assault on anything anti PNM, including the neutrals who are perceived as 'against us if not for us'.
Mr. Panday appears feral, going to full animal mode as he is besieged on all sides by would be pretenders to his throne, chief among these being Winston Dookeran's appeal to the high minded of the straight haired class, even as Prakash and his baby army emulates Patos for control of the COP. The rank and file voter ends up with a fool's choice, cornered as it were into trying to understand the meaning of their vote, so strong was the call to tribal arms, so ready the compliance, all hands on deck.

Whither the Democracy in all this? Where it has always been entrusted - with you. In an attempt to demystify, I refuse to sink to the level of the other pro party provocateurs, and appeal instead to pro democracy, pro equality, pro integrity citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. Let us demonstrate an enmity with this savagery and hold the high ground of integrity, in so much as, at least, after the madness, we will be able to look ourselves and our children in the eye knowing we did not flinch in our duty, did not compromise for expediency, did not sell our brothers down the river for our own comfort.

I believe we remain the majority, and I believe when we find our collective voice we will bring this coalition of weak minds to an end. One day soon, when we're on song, Trinidad will rise again....