Constipated
Opposition Politics in Ceylon
I
should write something political today.
Having
had an extended sleep, I woke up fresh with new ideas, for the
opposition parties (U.N.F), so that they can to pull up socks and
have a coherent opposition strategy to save democratic norms.
We
are heading the path of Myanmar and Un Suu Kyi’s defense of army is
not an acceptable norm in politics.
One
should not mix religion with politics which is happening daily in
this land of many religions.
Politics
should be divorced from all forms of religions,
Especially
because monks / (priests in other religions) are forgetting Buddha’s
teaching (other teachings) and acting in divisive politics including
having four or five sectors of Sasana based on caste system (there is
no caste system in Buddha’s teaching, it is borrowed from our Tamil
Kings of yo).
I
have no qualm for monks taking a political stand but once they take
that stance they should drop the saffron garb.
It
should be a knee jerk reaction of wisdom.
They should not do both and
lead to conflict of interest in legal terms.
Opposition
Regard
to the opposition they should form an organization like Unite Nations
Organization and unify minorities.
If we do not protect the minority rights to have a political voice, we are going back to the past of trauma and human right violations.
Taking Buddhist monks into the fore of this organization (U.N.O) is a political liability.
It should be named as United National Organization.
United
National Party should be a party within that Organization.
The name front (U.N.Front) is inappropriate since we do not see the back end (in other words, the motives or vision) of that front.
Coming to power is not the only motive.
Organized opposition is mandatory and J.V.P is practically dead if they do not join this Organization upfront.
In
opposition parties disintegrate, not if they are organized.
We
must prevent a monk becoming a President one day.
That
is their political motive and NOT to spread the word of Dhamma and
Wisdom.
Constipated
Post of Presidency and Constitutional Conundrum
I
was following the “Attempt to Impeach President Trump” who was
elected electorally (not by the number of popular vote casted- but by
the bizarre system of electoral colleagues of USA).
Having
listened to the democrats, I was emotionally constipated and switched
off CNN telecast.
To
begin with President Trump was an astute businessman, fabulously rich
(he does not need any remuneration from US Government for his
survival except the status of pomposity extended to any individual
with empirical narcissist ideology) with powerful twitter control of
his emotions.
I
do not mean he is narcissist but upfront capitalist with some good
ideas (NATO sharing responsibility-swipe at France and German
leaderships and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan) and some bad
ideas (meddling with Iran and Middle East and one state solution for
Palestine).
One
of his twitters can stymie a month of deliberation in the house
controlled by majority democrats.
It
is pretty obvious it is not a constitutional issue but a
constitutional (political) conspiracy to oust an opponent, bringing a
constitutional conundrum albeit veracity.
It
is a foregone conclusion that attempt to impeach will be rejected
with full force of the Senate.
Spending
so much money and time with Christmas bells chiming is an absolute
waste of human resources.
It
is time that American public realizes this precocious and precarious
entanglement and take control of the public funds and divert them for
better outcome like education and health care.
We
also have a similar post here and ever since it was instituted and
fully established we became poorer and poorer and our national debt
extend up to 100 (steps of 40, 60, 100) years, now.
Every
sworn in President promised to abolish it but did sweet nothing for
over 38 years!
I
have a saying that if we “Abolish The Post of Presidency”
(real white elephant) for 10 years, we can improve the transport
system including introducing a few domestic air lines, for people in
the North, instead of giving India our air space to drop Mysore dhal
(Parippu) in a crisis.
