Submitted by People’s Democratic Congress (PDC)
The People’s Democratic Congress (PDC) will NOT be running candidates in the next general election in Barbados. As a matter of fact, the PDC has decided to BOYCOTT the next general election over the continual destruction degradation of many of our political social material and financial affairs by these ossie moore jack o lantern BLP and DLP factions.
Furthermore, what this means also is that we will NOT be VOTING in the next elections either, and we will NOT be entertaining many conversations with many people on any political electoral issues related to which party is going to so-called win the next general election; which DLP/BLP candidates are going to so-called win constituency elections either; or which numbers of seats any of those two old joke parties are going to get.
Whilst it was our intentions up to recently – some weeks ago – to run candidates in the upcoming general election, we must say that – after careful study of three (3) particular situations in Barbados – we have recently most definitively come to the above described fundamental positions, and thus have so far been letting many potential/voters know the facts surrounding these circumstances. To this end, many of them have been in agreement with our positions.
We have instead decided – from here onwards right up to the next general election – to concentrate our political efforts on strengthening the party’s political foundations politically, socially, intellectually, etc., and to focus our own abilities our dispositions on continuing to prepare for the following general election in 2016 in this country, wherefore it will be our expectation to be running a full slate of candidates. But, the fact that we will not be running candidates and voting in this upcoming election does not mean that we will not ourselves during this period be greater planning for and greater carrying out political activity in this country. For, it is an inescapable political duty of ours – as a political party – to bring about other non-electoral political events and activities within the context of what is expected to be a heightened state and level of politics and electioneering in the country over the next couple of months.
As a result of such strategic thinking, the PDC will be holding a number of nocturnal platform meetings at various times in various places in Barbados. We will also be making sure that we continue with our public education program of making many people in Barbados become so very aware and knowledgeable of the PDC’s core political ideological objectives (the Abolition of TAXATION, Interest Rates, etc), that many of them will definitely be certifying that these kinds of objectives are implemented in this country. As well, we will be ensuring that we continue to canvass and inform many Barbadians – and of course expecting that we are canvassed and informed ourselves by some of these same people – about many of those very burning critically important issues that are in need of being addressed and resolved in this country. And furthermore we will continue to play an increasing role in raising the political ideological consciousness of many people in Barbados, among other things. So, it is very clear that our political approach to the next general election period in Barbados will involve the greater promoting, marketing and publicizing of such people centered efforts.
So, we have decided that it is far better to free ourselves for the time being from the electoral process and to instead primarily focus our political responsibilities on having greater interaction and dialogue with the people on some very fundamental issues, than be so distracted by an electoral process that NOT ONLY will see these two older outdated idiotic factions pretending to fight against each other on many absolutely frivolous and unimportant partisan issues, BUT that will ALSO see them helping to inappropriately reduce the vast majority of people of this country to the statuses of mere bystanders and cheerleaders in a process that ought to have been involving them far more centrally profoundly intellectually politically.
Nevertheless, we are confident that by the time the next national election after this upcoming one (constitutionally due in 2017) comes about in this country, many of the facets of the ideological, political and mobilization consciousness and praxis on the part of the broad masses and middle classes would have been increased and enhanced so much so that these effects would serve to facilitate our becoming again involved in the electoral process in Barbados.
Moreover, we feel safe in the knowledge that with the DLP/BLP expected in the foreseeable future to continue celebrating and glorifying much more of the degradation, degeneration and misery that they and their cohorts have so cruelly brought to the lives of the broad masses and middle classes of people of this country, that therefore such higher levels of consciousness and praxis of these masses and middle classes will definitely emerge as a consequence thereof.
Indeed, the upcoming general election period, and the manner and mode in which the PDC will approach it politically, will be – for us – more of a test as to whether many thousands of Barbadian voters will come up with the amount of wisdom and understanding that is necessary to demonstrate that they are able to overcome these two morally intellectually political bankrupt groups and their now accustomed adverse some incorrigible behaviors in the next 6 years, than more be about whether or not the DLP or BLP will win the majority of seats in the House of Assembly.
As well, this political election period must be seen as affording the opportunities for many a Barbadian citizen to take some steps back, have some looks at (free of active participation), reflect on and then come to the conclusions as to whether the current political electoral process is what it ought to be. Many a citizen must also see it as a time when many thousands of voters in Barbados must begin to rediscover their political souls and their inner political selves, and with greater political salvation and reinvigoration seek to free themselves from these two political monsters within the next six years. So, it is for these kinds of reasons that the PDC has started to invite such a process of national renewal and regeneration for Barbados. Certainly we hope that thousands of others in the country will do the same. For, such a process is absolutely necessary for greater growth and development of our country.
Anyhow, the three situations that the PDC has carefully studied and that have informed our positions NOT to run candidates or vote in the next elections are:
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The realization that – for too long in this country – there have been political electoral recessions and reclines backwards in relationship to political campaigns about VOTING for both these corrupt BLP/DLP gangs. Such reversions, we dare say, too, are movements that have been financed by some financial corporate oligarchs in this country (by some others too from outside of Barbados too) and that have been based on the old colonial practice of encouraging greater unnecessary party tribalism and cannibalism among a rather homogenous people to the detriment of the further progress and development of this country. To counter such we have decided that from here onwards there shall be greater movement made on the PDC’s part towards building a movement of people’s support across the country for a NO VOTE CAMPAIGN UNTIL BETTER PARTIES BECOME AT THE CENTER OF MAINSTREAM POLITICS IN BARBADOS.
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The realization that – for too long in Barbados – minor parties have been providing candidates in an electoral voting system that has been deliberately made to disfavor the chances of these minor parties winning/getting seats in the House of Assembly, whilst tremendously favoring opportunities for the dishing out of House of Assembly seats among these two factions. Thus, each and every candidate of each and every minor party must have by now been prepared to have as a fundamental part of their and their parties political electoral campaigns and policies, firm and credible pledges and commitments made to the electorate to remove this first past the post electoral system and to replace it with a variant of the proportional representation system.
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The realization that – over the last 25 years or so in Barbados – each and every succeeding general election has been followed by the political financial relationships between the political oligarchs, the middle classes and the broad masses becoming worse and worse politically. Thus, general election periods in Barbados have been becoming less and less effectual and relevant as critical environments/events for dealing with serious national issues and have thus been stupidly substantially reduced to political by the constant barrages of blatant political mind controlling hype, razzmatazz, tomfoolery, music, concerts, rumor-mongering, gossip , and by the hidden hand of political personal, corporate and familial greed, conniving, and treachery.
Minor parties must therefore in response to such declivities in the importances of general elections on the political calendar, put forward strong coherent policies and programs that will directly give greater power and authority to the broad masses and middle classes to greater determine their own material financial affairs. Minor parties must also encourage as many serious politically conscious people in Barbados to form their own people centered parties here in the country.
So, with such facts in mind we will ask those progressive people on BU and elsewhere to BOYCOTT the NEXT ELECTIONS IN BARBADOS, AND THE NEXT, UNTIL SERIOUS PARTIES ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE GIVEN A CHANCE BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TO RUN THIS COUNTRY.
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