Comments on: We can believe in NO candidate in 2010. What’s new though, right?

By: Groundtruth

Groundtruth — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:25:04 +0000

A good analysis of the highly contentious and confused issues at stake. It is SO easy to destroy and SO VERY difficult to build. More sad is that none of the candidates have presented how to rebuild the country. None of them have presented a vision for the future. Parochial differences, accusations and counter accusations plus violence are creeping in the closer we get to election date. An alltogether confusing state of affairs which will further make voter’s choice difficult. Pity the citizen voter. Is politics a free for all or is it a science?

By: Wij

Wij — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:57:52 +0000

Justitia, Well said.

Sadly though, poitical chivalry of the kind you hope for is dead, never to return again…..

By: Justitia

Justitia — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:06:00 +0000

This country deserves the politicians it ends up with. Watching the antics of the motley crew along with the so called ‘cream of the biz community’ at Fonny’s Cinnamon affair yesterday makes me believe that we’re not going anywhere but further into a whirl of ridiculousness in the 10 years. It’s pathetic and sad and I really don’t know what its gonna take to change the way we’ve been operating for decades now. Those with any sense will leave, those of us who cling to childhood memories and unrealized dreams will stay or come back to give a few others the best of what we had…in the good old days. Sri Lanka needs a few good men and women, courageous and enlightened enough to work through these uncertain times, realizing that Sri Lanka is a unique country, with unique and unfathomable problems that need unique and ground-breaking solutions.

By: Maya

Maya — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:03:32 +0000

Why are women always the brunt of unflattering analogies?! 🙂

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:53:02 +0000

First time voters such as myself are met with quite the disillusionment as far as the franchise is concerned.

By: REALIST

REALIST — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:51:57 +0000

Yes, a non-partisan, true democratic conscioius, peace-loving voter is in a dilemma as to whom he should vote for. Yet there is a way to come out of this dilemma. Majority of Sri Lanka voters become active only at the time of the election. So the politicians resort to every wrong between the time of elections. At election time they make promises and the average voter becomes gullible to these false promises as he or she has not followed the happenings upto the time of the election. In brief the average voter has a negative attitude to politics. As the media, academics, professionals and such who follow political events fail, eihter due to fear or of their own personal interestss, to enlighten the people of the actual happenings. Thereby these sections are failing in their duty they owe the people, on whose resources they have reached their positions, by not guiding the people towards right thinking and to mobilise effective public opinion on the behaviour of the politicians. Although there are issues on which we cannot agree with major Western countries, we could still see as to how public opinion can bring pressure on politicians who do not behave in the best interests of the people. All sections of the educated elite in Sri Lanka should think in this direction. Otherwise the country will be for ever led by politicians whose number since our gaining keeps increasing.