Madam speaker’s loss was for me a painful reminder of how cruel politics can be if you do not understand the balances of power as well as the conditions for victory. I believe that the majority of the population wanted her to win, and she must have known that, and she must have thought that that would be enough, so she cast the dice, and as the saying goes she paid the ultimate price. BDP delivered her a coup de tête.
I do not feel sorry that she lost, but I deeply feel sorry for BDP because they cannot see that they are losing the war. Any student of history will tell you that the one thing that many powerful parties and regimes all had in common prior to falling, was that they had become too accustomed to victory, they had fallen victim to the ‘too big to fail’ notion. Most people cannot see beyond their immediate victories, they cannot see the implications of one incident in its entirety and they cannot see a victory bringing them closer to their demise. With Nasha’s loss, what we have basically said to the country is that; all power does not belong to the majority, it belongs to a few. But Nasha’s loss is but one of the many mistakes we have made. In this article I will point out a few of the so-called strides that, in my opinion, were infact mistakes and will have perilous effects in the long run.
