Cynical? Truth Is “Apologists” Can’t Understand Crisis
By Kusal Perera –June 15, 2015
Kusal Perara
“@Cokroach You must be soooo happy to see your utter negativity coming true, the country be damned. With cynics like you, #lka has no chance!” (a very recent tweet)
That was a response I got for my very open critical tweets on this “Maithripalanaya” and the way so called experts in “civil society” respond to the major crisis we are heading to. Socio political and economic instability. The “tweep” does accept I have been right in my political projections, but consoles himself saying I’m “negative”. That has been the escape route for most “Maithripalanaya” apologists. While Rajapaksa played around plundering our economy with “cronies” around him, we now have these “crony” civil society apologists justifying anything this government does.
The fact is, the actual crisis we are being dragged into is being overlooked by these MS apologists on a consolation platter, “…but MR was defeated. Isn’t that good enough?”. Just the way the urban middle class they belong to argued “Yeah, what is corruption? LTTE was defeated and isn’t that good enough?”. They therefore don’t want to engage the people in any way, on any of the major reforms promised by MS in his election manifesto “Stable Country – Maithri Government” and the “100 Day programme”. All “reforms” that are talked of in patched and tinkered form are being compromised in an illegitimate parliament with the 70 plus MPs who want to “Wake Up With Mahinda” deciding what we can have. What’s happening is, we are being chased down the “Rajapaksa Road” with a smudged green flag, carried by the same corrupt lot who were with Rajapaksa for 09 long, corrupt, dirty and lawless years.
I therefore wonder what these apologists would say to these major promises and issues that had no social discourse and had no social engagement post elections and implemented at random with no serious interest.
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