Good choices make a strong nation
This Old Boy has a perverse delight in reading the lamentations of residents of specific societies. It is not schaden-freude. It is a simple acknowledgment that we all reap what we sow individually, socially, and corporately.
It is clearly so with societies and countries. That poor choices lead to misery is cliché’. The sum total of poor choices by a country’s residents leads to national misery.
His favorite case study is a failed state that is the sum total of the greed, covetousness, and outright maliciousness of a significant percentage of that society’s population- especially its leadership.
He has always warned society that without a change in the social behavior of the critical mass of that country’s population, it will continue to lament and gnash the proverbial teeth. He is never surprised at the daily rendition of woe and misery that permeates that country: terrorism; banditry; cult murder; the looting of public treasuries; fraud; poverty; and so on and so forth.
The Virgin Islands appears to be following a similar trajectory. In fact, most countries that sing a wolf song of colonialism and imperialism as the raison d'être for their maladies inhabit a similar world.
These societies labor under the false belief that every wrong has been the fault of some outside power. Paradoxically these societies also covet the 'might is right, and that wrong is strong' fairy tale.
They worship at the feet of the corrupt man of power, the scamp, and detest the honest individual. Ironically, the religious folk are the guiltiest of this malady. The just and honest man is a fool who deserves his penury.
In the end, the honest man has the last laugh as he is allowed by divinity to witness the fall and fall of these societies.
Paradoxically, most of these societies are highly religious. Religion becomes an excellent camouflage, the place to hide all the rot: the tomb filled with dead men’s bones. This has always been the natural place of religion and the pious. History reveals that reality.
Not to let the so-called ‘’developed’’ countries off the hook: all societies suffer from poor choices. In Britain, BREXIT has been a very poor choice. In the USA, the love of Donald Trump has damaged democracy and national institutions; and tyranny has brought Russia to the brink of collapse, and global pariah status.
In a few months, the Virgin Islands will have an election. The voting public will have a choice. Recent history will reveal a litany of poor choices made by too many residents. This has resulted in the state of the society today: wasted billions, unsustainable social entitlement, and international disgrace.
This resident admonishes that voters think clearly before deciding whom to place in power.
Voters should study recent history. Yes, voters in every society vote on their bottom line, however, do remember that honesty and integrity in governance deliver better long-term outcomes in the end.
Your grandchildren will thank you for your wise choice at the ballot box.
So choose wisely.
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3 Responses to “Good choices make a strong nation”
We could as well not ask but plead with England to take back her child. Let's be honest Skelton whose name in being talked about plain and simple dont like expats. Expats happen to be a solid pillar in the territory. They can not take no more. So Skelton is a wrong choice.
Slowande and Marlon just not ready for the big seat. Pickering would not be a bad choice in my opinion but he can't run all the Ministries as fat Albert tried to do. Yes say what you may about him he was saddled with some prebies who he had to breast feed.
Out of the present crop let us for once be honest. The lady from the fifth is second only the guy from the ninth in incompetency. The guy from the second would kiss any a$$ for a position. Min of Ed is definitely out of her league at best she should be a school teacher. The lady from VG is a little better than the guy from the ninth. She seems to be a people's person but not good enough the manage a ministry.
The type of ministers we have from the premier down shows the quality and calibre if the pool of persons to choose from. Andrew was your last savior. Please beg Briton to take over.
Hush your decadent foreign @$$. You know nothing about the BVI. Which lady from the fifth you idiot. People like you a dangerous set of parasites would cause anyone not to like or want to have anything to do with you. Do you believe that after brown nosing and sucking up to the Brits that you will be favored. Stop being a damned idiot it is people like you who are partly responsible for the mess always trying to worm your way in by any means. Always talking about how you develop the BVI when in fact you developed your homeland out of the BVI. Y'all make me sick with your dirty low attitude you have no gratitude or shame and don't deserve to be here period. If i'm elected look out for quotas and term limits for every nationality to put an end to the invasion. WHEN YOUR WORK PERMIT EXPIRES FIND YOUR ROOST INSTEAD OF BEING HERE UNDERMINING THE COUNTRY WITH YOUR NASTY @$$ NO GOOD WAYS.