Are some of the political parties and formation and/or would be politicians what the Namibian voters deserve, and therefore they must accept and leave with them and the mediocrity presented to them?
Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but pose this question. Since sooner in November the country is going to the polls when voters must make that important and crucial choice.
A choice that every voter only makes every five years or so. Meaning, unless she/he makes that choice this November, for the next five years in one way or another she/he is doomed.
Because given the nascent nature of Namibian democracy, what happens between elections seem to be of no consequence. Vote now or you are doomed seems to have become the nature of the Namibian democratic dispensation.
Not only this even after casting their votes and those they have voted for enter either of the two august houses and/or become councilors one th one or the other local authority councils, what they do then seems to matter little to the voters. Ala Yours Truly Ideologically, from the day one an elected official assume public office, every second, minute, hour must account up until the next election.
But currently in the Namibian democratic dispensation it seems the civic duty of voting is some kind of a burden to the voter that is better soonest dispensed with and discarded.
Because having voted there’s seems little civic duty either define and/or expected from the voter. “I have done my part I have voted and/or given you my vote, see what you do with it” seems the norm.
Even with the next election rarely, it at all, do voters seem to hold candidates and/or parties/formations accountable as to what they may have done with one’s vote cast for them the last time.
Safe that it is that time again just to put a cross wherever. Wherever a voter put a cross seems to mater no more.
Otherwise it is inconceivable how some of the political parties/formations are and have been returned after any election with little to show for in terms of the promises made during elections campaigns.
Increasingly it seems for some if not most of the politicians and their political parties/formations running for public office has become like a chance game for anyone to try her/his luck.
Agreeing among themselves and/or giving one another a go at the chance to run for office. That is why one is presented with a situation of anyone willy nilly offering her/his candidature.
As if the political party/formation does not have any rule prescribing how one qualifies for candidature. Because in some political parties/formations, it seems, one just wakes entices his/her clique of whatever, political interest being the least or commitment to serving being the least of motivations, but decide to for office. From the corridors of brothels, beer halls, and what-have-you, one just decide to run.
As a result many, Yours Truly Ideologically do not really know how to call and/or refer to them. Because calling them politicians would really be denigrating the [process by which honourables are produced. Many of them have come only to disappear into thin air. Reminding one of the popular song by Boy George Karma Chameleon: Desert “loving in your eyes all the way
If I listen to your lies, would you say
I’m a man (a man) without conviction
I’m a man (a man) who doesn’t know
How to sell (to sell) a contradiction
You come and go, you come and go”. Indeed many whatever have come and gone into oblivion without them ever reporting back to their would-be constituencies. In some of these political parties/formations this seems to have become a culture.
A testing ground for their political fantasies, a process during which and in which the voter is, has been and is being taken for granted. Now is it because this is what the Namibian voter deserves and has been getting what she/he exactly deserves?
Yours Truly Ideologically would not wish to believe. Instead it is the mediocrity of the Namibian political system and democratic edifice and its copycat eccentricities that for long has been taken for granted to the point of somehow stifling its own internal growth mechanisms debilitating against its own maturity.
The Labour in the United Kingdom (UK) just assumed the reigns of governance following landslide election. Mark my words someone during this November in Namibia would equally aim for landslide outcome. What for? For the sake of mediocrity of the Namibian democracy’s mediocrity and superfluous and idiosyncratic political culture.
