Thursday, 25 July 2013

A Different Kind of Prime Minister

A few days ago I went into the "ghettos" of Mc. Knight where I was born and raised. I am always there. I am there every day. The drama club I founded many years ago and still direct today performs street theater there. The people come out in their numbers to witness our performances. The children of the  area talk about the performances long after the group has packed up and gone. But I have not left.
 I asked, playfully of course, a few persons in the area if they would vote for me if I ran in the next election . To my amazement nobody said they won't. I decided that if I ran and by some chance I became Prime Minister, I am going to be a Prime Minister like nobody has ever seen. I will try my best not to win any more than one term. I will do everything the opposition wants me to do. I will call elections whenever the opposition feels I must even if it is twice or three, four or five times in my first five year.
 I promise that if I win the election and become Prime Minister, I will appoint a Governor General and a speaker of the General Assembly who will not support me and my agenda; in fact I will not have an agenda of my own, or an agenda of my political party at all. The agenda will be the agenda of every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to put something into it so I could boast that I am the most democratic Prime Minister ever elected in the history of the West Minster System of Democratic Governance.
 I am not joking.
 My nation will be the freest nation on the planet.
 And when it comes to election campaigning, I am going to speak like an angel. I will don a halo and take the platform talking like I have seen The Angel Gabriel ominously wagging a warning finger at me.
 I am serious.
 I will let the opposition curse me and I will not curse back. I will let them accuse me of the most lewd and corrupt practices and I never accuse back, and I will let them plaster my weaknesses and failures, and never make one single mention of theirs. Remember my objective is to never win another election after I would have won the first five years in office.
 I am going to demonstrate absolute fairness and make sure that the changing of the boundaries does not even remotely look like it is going to favor my victory. It must look like I took absolute caution and counted every single citizen, asking them precisely, one by tedious one, who they are going to vote for, then place them strategically where everything will seem unquestioningly fair to in- exclusively all ( although I don't yet know how I am going to get that done). I am going to do this with faith and full confidence that whoever wins the elections after I would have lost it, will be  fair, seeking not to remain in power too long ( I don't yet know who is going to determine what too long is) and so follow my sterling, democratic idealism and do the very same thing that I would have done, at the end of my one and only five year term.
and I am very serious.

2 comments:

  1. Talk about intelligent people still "towing the line,"...trying to appear "diplomatic' while still propping up the ultimate menace responsible for the mess that the country is in...STRUPES!!!

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  2. Your comment is appreciated.

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