Why I love the Kittitian Political Landscape

Politics in St. Kitts has a unique hue. We think of it almost as passionately as we do an exciting football game, sometimes the ball is headed pell-mell, propelled by a player who "gets away". The crowd cheers, stands to its feet and yells so many different expressions of expectations at the lone player behind the ball heading straight for a tension-stiffened goalkeeper on his opponent's side. And then we hear the sounds like the deflating of a billion balloons, when the ball, at last, is volleyed right over the head of the goalkeeper, and straight over the top bar of the goalpost. All this excitement for nothing. What a disappointment for the fans of the team experiencing the raised hope. No one is going to murder the player who lifted their expectation. In fact, if he "gets away" again, the hope will be equally as titillating. This is politics in St. Kitts, and we love it all.
 The thing is that at times St. Kitts can be an annoyingly peaceful place for some, for we have heard a few callers to the radio stations expressing disgust at Kittitian docility, reminding us of the bloodstained streets of the Middle East, nearly pleading with us to emulate the chaos, but not us.
 Certainly we have had disturbances in the past. The public library is no longer located on East Square Street because of one such disturbance. Occasionally a player gets away and does a disturbing thing, but Kittitians do not want their belongings destroyed. Our places of work mean the world to us. We like dressing up and going to work in beautifully textured buildings. We are extremely proud when our children work in posh places with beautifully decorated, highly polished tiled floors. The more of these things we possess, the better we seem to behave. We enjoy beautiful things; they sooth and pacify us as they do appreciative people in literate societies everywhere . We are fiercely proud of our exquisitely designed homes on hillsides, and nothing gives us more delight than taking our visiting families on driving tours, slowing to a crawl while pointing out things that "were not here when you left".
Not everyone is going to enjoy the game. There will always be some who think the other team is better and more disserving, but there are just too many glistening trophies on the covered table of the field at this stage of the game,  and we trust that Kittitians are prepared to await their turn to add and not destroy any of it.