Let's call a spade a spade. Politics in Trinidad is race driven; it shouldn\t be, of course, but it is. Both politival parties are hopelessly driven by race and not by ideas or policies. Basically, they both say that "we can do it better than them". There are very few policies (if any) that are driven by policies .
Let me prove it to you. Quickly. What are the main POLICY differences between the PNM and the UNC? Aaah ! You had to think about that one, didn't you? So? How do you choose who you are going to vote for? For some people the thinking is that "they (whoever "they" are) have screwed up so I'll give the other guys a chance." Unfortunately, these people are in a minority - a minority who can make a difference because the Indians and the Africans are almost evenly divided. But I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that none of them can tell me what the POLICY differences are between the two parties.
In other countries (e.g., Canada the U.K., France, etc.) the competition is always between ideas and policies. But here i good old T&T we elect our political leaders because they are black or Indian and we conveniently ignore the fact that there i only one reason for politics - one reason for government: and that is to make life better for the people.
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