16638: Sajousp: Re: 16629: Arthur Re: 16585: Racine125@aol.com (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Sajousp@aol.com

In a message dated 9/4/2003 12:38:05 PM Central Daylight Time, Tttnhm@aol.com

 writes:

> If one Haitian political party has won an election, and the others have
> lost,
> the ones which did not win the election do not say to themselves, "We will
> work hard just like the victorious party did, and convince a majority of
> voters
> to give us a chance, and in four years we will present our programmes to the
> electorate and if we really have something to offer and have convinced
> enough
> voters of our competence, then we can win the election and hold power too."
> Instead they hate the party that won the election and go to the US and
> French
> Embassies and say the victorious party cheated, let's cut off aid, and
> undermine
> the legitimacy of the winning party!  THAT kind of behavior is what makes
> Haitians poor - I think in the USA it's been referred to as the "democracy
> enhancement" syndrome.
>
>


Agree with the above,however one might add why did the winning party cheat
when it would have won a majority anyway.Henceforth,your extension applies to
the whole haitian society with no exceptions

Pierrot