A lot has been said; people’s reputations have been left bruised and, in extreme instances, destroyed.
Now is the time for the faction leaders to come out clear with their factional intentions, particularly Barata Party.
This may be an opportunity for them to address issues that I will indirectly raise in this article candidly and openly without feeling it necessary to betray us.
Forrest Moyer once said, “When one chooses an opinion or tenet that is both not in the truth or that is an extreme application of some principle and presses that point to the pulling away of a group he has become guilty of factionalism.”
Therefore, the self proclaimed BDP factional leaders are, in the eyes of the entire BDP membership, guilty. I use Moyer’s writings because they are more suitable to my analysis of what concerns me as a democrat.
I loosely write this article so that those who are comfortable with serving factional interests than those of the party enlighten us. Failure to do so, we shall continue wrongly or correctly to speculate until those who have become mouthpieces for the factions tell us the truth.
Democrats involved and those representing Barata Party need to know and should have understood, more so than us, that their actions would ultimately shape our perceptions of them forming or having formed a new party.
It is, therefore, of no surprise that we view Barata Party as a new party still at its embryonic stage.
I say ‘we’ because an overwhelming majority of the BDP membership has been reduced to spectators. Factions have assumed the driver’s seat with DK dictating terms.
DK, with his passion for factionalism, has ignored the serious negative consequences that his ‘intriguing doctrine’ has for the party. The factional strive has irretrievably become intensive and is now a matter of public knowledge, that has made our party suffer from perceptions of disunity. Simply put, the internal squabbles only serve to impede the effectiveness of the party.
This article has taken adequate notice of the current status of my beloved BDP. Rightly so, the BDP is not in a desired state of affairs.
My party is riddled with factional bullets. I no longer see the red colour as a brand but blood pouring out from factional wounds.
Like I stated in the beginning, the analytical torchlight of this article is crafted within Moyer’s thinking; he observed that from factionalism, the resulting group is a sect of division developed and brought to an issue, where Barata Party is a case in point.
They are the dissenting voice that has arisen from diversity of opinions and aims to politely and silently launch a new party from within.
It is without doubt that, despite prevailing democracy in the BDP, Barata Party has pressed their opinion beyond what it is.
They have disingenuously isolated some truth and built their whole teaching around it. However, this has not been helpful but only intensified the already existing factions that have for many years been managed through compromised decisions.
Certainly, Barata Party is all out in huge numbers preaching the teachings that are only conducive to the formation of a new party.
DK knows it very well that his stand, no matter how principled it may be, has only created fertile grounds for what we now suspect to be his intentions of leading a break away party.
However, I wish to complicate the idea of DK being a principled politician with the counter that he does have personal interests in factionalism, and aspires to be the president of his own party yet to be launched. Nevertheless, I remain hopeful that those in the know (including DK) of the resolutions that were passed at Oasis Lodge will be faithful in studying the past and the future of our party, so that we may know the truth and then plant our feet firmly on that truth.
It is my belief that the delegates shall turn neither to the right nor to the left. They will dare not lose their ethical judgment through the indulgence of factionalism.
DK has manipulated the events in the party to pursue his own agendas.
DK is an honourable man and I love him so much.
I give him credit for the work that he has done for the party over the years. However, I do not in any way intend to suggest that he be sent to the rubbish bin but we need to turn over a new leaf as a party.
The diversity in the party needs to be embraced and it must be seen as such. We need to inject the presence of young blood and women in the central committee.
I am a constitutionalist too but more than many of us do, DK understands the fruits of compromised decisions for the sake of peace in the BDP.
DK, who is a celebrated party veteran, has been in the thick of things before but to be masquerading constitutionalism is a betrayal of the founding principles of the BDP.
In his quest for the chairmanship of the party, DK shows his desire to be recognized as outstanding, putting himself forward, and making his opinion into the constitution of the BDP thus fostering his goal of forming a new party.
DK wants to be seen as a champion and that has forced him to resort to politics of pettiness and victimhood.
DK’s preachings about the constitution are solely designed to achieve the image he has in mind: and that is of being a president of the new party.
These tactics have never failed the teachings of contemporary politics. Having found something (constitutionalism) which he thinks is new and unique, DK has pursued partisan and divisive courses.
Subsequent to that, we have helplessly seen fellow democrats verbally cutting each other (including the president) to pieces in public. This has only legitimized our belief on rumours making rounds that DK has formed a new party.
To illustrate this point, we all know that DK prevented the adoption of a compromise to advance his own agenda. This is a belief that democrats will subscribe to as we go to the congress due to be held in Kanye.
