Inside The Moated-Fortresses Of Ignorance Of The Kennedy Adjapongs

For those who have failed thus far  to see through the few powerful and  cynical individuals,  who  currently hold sway in  the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and surround the decent-minded  and gentlemanly Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo,   it might be  hard to connect  a member of Parliament representing a constituency controlled by their party, in what is supposed to be a democratic country,  with a call to the    youth of  their  party  to be prepared to go out unto the streets to  sacrifice their lives for the NPP.


The shock for such innocents-abroad, is that they always thought their party's view,  was  that compromise and tolerance underpinned constitutional  democracy.


Consequently, they find the verbally aggressive tone of the  Kennedy Adjapongs in their midst, rather baffling and hard to fathom.


Above all,  those decent individuals  always thought that the fight for power in a democracy,  for their party, was premised on  a competition of ideas - with power going to the political party able to convince the largest numbers of voters that its vision of society best represented  their own aspirations.


The sad thing in all this, as the Ghanaian nation-state is made more or less steadily impossible to govern,  and its fragile economy slowly emasculated - as a political tactic to advance the power-through-the-back-door-

route agenda of the party's reckless and short-sighted hardliners: regardless of   its deleterious impact  on ordinary people   -  is that the NPP's Kennedy Adjapongs,  more than most in their  party,   know perfectly well that their party did indeed lose the December 2012 presidential election:  as the Supreme Court will eventually rule.


They are  also aware that because the dominant clique of hardliners in the party's leadership believe firmly that in politics and life,  the end always justifies the means,   they see the  exploitation of legal technicalities as a perfect back-door-route-to-power political tactic - never mind the effect on the nation of their insincere actions.


And it is also a super-effective  back-door-route-to-power tactic,   which,  as luck would have it,  can  suitably be clothed by the cynical and amoral, with the respectable and classical garb of high-principle and belief in the  rule of law -  to dazzle the silent majority of decent-minded individuals who identify with their  party mostly for the ideals it claims to stand for.


That is  why as long as the few extremist and hard-line individuals in Nana Akufo-Addo's inner-circle continue to dominate the NPP and maintain their iron grip on the party's structures, the party's  Kennedy Adjapongs  will continue to sally forth from their chi-chi  moated-fortresses of ignorance,  to rave and rant - much to the discomfiture of ordinary apolitical folk in Ghana:   and continue to get away with their pure nonsense on bamboo stilts,   simply because of the spinelessness of those who should arrest and prosecute those loud blunderbuss-mouths, but fail to do  so.


Yet appeasement in such circumstances  seldom leads to lasting peace - as has been demonstrated in countless places where civil strife is deliberately engineered by power-hungry and sadistic individuals.


Ghanaians will therefore   continue to be forced to put up with the anti-democratic and seditious fulminations of the NPP's Kennedy Adjapongs for some time - meaning those confounded  geniuses will  continue living comfortably in the moated-fortresses of ignorance they are ensconced in. Pity. Hmm, Ghana - eyeasem o.


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