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Nine weeks ago, in the first article of this column, we noted three interrelated strategies that are highly important to removing the current ruling regime from governance.\u00a0 Removing them would clearly present the best opportunity to restore the essence of the nation.\u00a0 These three strategies are: attempts to unite the electorate towards success at unseating the current corrupt ruling regime and subsequently building a thriving nation; efforts to break the economic stranglehold that the ruling regime has on the people of Dominica; and continued and enhanced efforts to share information with our people and to reach their hearts about doing the right thing to save our country.<\/p>\n
We then embarked on expounding on these strategies and in the in the six articles that followed the first one, we explored the first two strategies.\u00a0 Let us now look at the third strategy \u2013 continued and enhanced efforts to share information with our people.<\/p>\n
First, let us recognize that much effort has been made over the last fifteen years to share truth with the people of Dominica in order to encourage them to make better choices at the polls.\u00a0 I am highlighting the last 15 years, because over that period the threat posed by the ruling regime to the well-being of our country and to the freedoms enshrined in our constitution, became abundantly clear and the situation has gotten progressively worst!\u00a0 But congratulations to all those involved in the education effort including the opposition political parties \u2013 the United Workers Party, the Dominica Freedom Party, and more recently the Alternative People\u2019s Party.\u00a0 \u00a0Kudos are in order for the other civil groups that have raised their voices including the Concerned Citizens Movement.\u00a0 Thanks to the many individuals that have hosted talk shows and shared form their hearts, the likes of Matt, Arthie, Sheridan, Loftus, Joshua, and Thompson among others. You all have had an impact and the truth is that Dominica has heard you and this was manifested at the last general elections when the majority of those residing in Dominica rejected the ruling regime. But shamefully, the incumbent political party retained power because they engaged in election bribery and treating, they imported votes and engaged in other fraud! The elections monitors would hot have been able to identify such fraud given the absence of a sanitized voters\u2019 list and no requirement to use appropriate voter identification; but we all are aware of what really happened.<\/p>\n
Why is it important to share information and reason with our people? It is because that as people are enlightened, they are more likely act to right the wrongs in our country.\u00a0 There is continuing need to counter the many lies told to the people. These guys are good at telling lies to the people and it is easy for some to believe such lies if they are not sufficiently aware of the issues or if they are not adequately aware of the kinds of evil and deceit that the regime is capable of.\u00a0 We have seen it all \u2013 pretence, playing the victim, misuse of statistics and more! We must effectively counter these lies and we must become better at telling truth than they are at telling lies! The use of deceit by these guys goes beyond the shores of Dominica. \u00a0They are deceiving some of our people who reside in the diaspora and they are also publishing falsehoods about the economy of Dominica in articles in foreign media including those in which the country\u2019s CBI programme is promoted.<\/p>\n
The regime has used psychology to brainwash some of our people.\u00a0 I have actually heard some people remark that there is no poverty in Dominica and that Dominica is doing well! They are clearly brainwashed or are believing lies that are imbedded in the deceitful messaging of the ruling regime. \u00a0We must therefore mount effective information and reasoning campaigns to reverse brainwashing. One area of brain washing is in the regime\u2019s effort to gain loyalty by the use of \u201cdon\u2019t bite the hand that feed you\u201d messaging. This deceitful messaging must be countered through strong reasoning.<\/p>\n
It takes effective reasoning with our people to overcome the politics of hate and to expose how the ruling regime is using hate to divide and rule our people.\u00a0 It takes good reasoning to reverse negative cultures that these guys are entrenching.\u00a0 For example, through their messaging, the regime perpetuates a culture of corruption. We need to reason with our people that it is not okay to be corrupt and that corruption hurts us all even those who are bribed.<\/p>\n
More effective reasoning is needed to contribute to arriving at a greater majority of the electorate residing in Dominica voting to save Dominica. This is one way to help overcome fraud. In the next article we will discuss the ways in which the ruling party has sought to prevent truth from being shared with the people.\u00a0 Surely, they know the power of honest reasoning. We will also discuss how we may become more effective with our communications.<\/p>\n
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Kent Vital<\/p>\n
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