As the election date moves closer, the hallucination which has afflicted the entire corrupt, incompetent, greedy, criminal, evil, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration becomes very frightening. The lies and false propaganda the administration is spewing out into the public domain is unprecedented in the political history of this country. The huge sum of state resources the administration is splashing into its campaign in form of uncouth, despicable horrifying branding of the nation in the unbridling display of NDC colours and presidential and parliamentary candidates posters is so obscene, a first time visitor to this county would believe he or she is back in the old communist era where inferior guerilla tactics were the order of the day. The amount of state resources stolen to perpetuate these uncanny acts is bound to surpass the GH¢9 billion of stolen state funds used by the corrupt, incompetent, greedy, criminal evil, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration to prosecute its 2012 election campaign which virtually pushed the country into HIPC from which we are yet to recover.
As if all these were not enough, the insult the corrupt, incompetent, greedy, criminal, evil, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration is adding to the injury it is causing to the citizens in giving meaning to is propaganda slogan: “change is happening” a corrupted version of the NPP slogan: “change is coming” by embarking on injury time projects to delude itself of its philosophy that Ghanaians have short memories and therefore will forget the hardship visited on the people during the eight years of failed administration and rely on the cosmetic projects to vote the administration into power. The massive confidence on the part of the entire corrupt, incompetent, greedy, criminal evil, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration towards victory in the pending election does not only arise from the poverty that the regime has imposed on almost all the citizens but also on its evil and satanic instinct to break the Central Bank to steal from the bank vault to throw them out to the impoverished electorates like a magician throwing out sweeties he has apparently conjured from covered bowl. Yes, John Dramani Mahama believes the poor suffering masses have short memories and only think of today and not tomorrow.
In addition, the entire corrupt, incompetent, greedy, criminal, evil, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration has a corrupted Electoral Commission staffed by a bunch of incompetent, arrogant, petulant, unpatriotic hirelings who are ready, willing and able to ensure that the corrupt, incompetent, greedy, criminal, evil, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration retains power by all foul means. It is sad and shameful and unacceptable and a display of the level of the intelligence of the educated blackman that a country with about 50 universities and 10 polytechnics (and therefore 50 vice-chancellors and 10 rectors) numerous think tanks, professional bodies and research institutions, religious institutions, regional and national houses of chiefs (headed by a university professor) and almost all staffed by professors and holders of doctorate degrees and other internationally recognized professional qualifications which should profess problem solving solutions, will allow idiots with lesser intelligence and moral values to capture the commanding heights of the nation’s affairs parading the streets like the Piped Piper of Hamelin leading the country into disaster while all those who have the knowledge and intelligence to address and speak up against the impending disaster have joined the corrupted ruling class behaving with the hallucination which afflicted Don Quixote.
In short, Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote’s fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers’ imaginations for nearly four hundred years. However, the full story of Don Quixote has many turns and twists as reported in google search.
Alonso Quixano, a less-than-affluent man of fifty, “lean bodied” and “thin faced, lives modestly in the Spanish country village of La Mancha with his niece, Antonia, and a cranky housemaid. Practical in most things, compassionate to his social peers, the local clergy, and the servant classes, Quixano is respectful toward the ruling classes, whom he unquestioningly accepts as his superiors. He is driven neither by ambition for wealth and position nor bitterness at his genteel poverty. Well read and thoughtful, Quixano’s most prized possessions are his books. From his readings and studies, he becomes by degrees interested, then obsessed, with the codes, deeds, and tales of chivalry — of knights errant on some courtly and idealized mission. As his appetite for the lore of chivalry increases, Quixano begins selling off acres of his farmlands, using the funds to buy more books, and increasingly throwing himself into his studies. “From little sleep and too much reading his brain dried up and he lost his wits. He had a fancy to turn his passion knight errant and travel through the world with horse and armor in search of adventures” with the purpose of “redressing all manner of wrongs.”
At length, he is galvanized into action by his passion for the chivalric code. Outfitting himself with some old rusty armor, Quixano enlists his spavined hack horse to go forth in search of knightly adventures. Hopeful of finding a proper noble to dub him, Quixano finally is licensed in his venture by an innkeeper who believes him to be a lord of a manor. Now Quixano is “Don Quixote de La Mancha”; his tired hack and dray horse becomes elevated to “Rosinante.” All the new knight needs now in order to venture forth is a lady to whose service he is sworn and a servant or page. For the former, he chooses Dulcinea del Tobosa, named after Aldonza Lorenzo, a farm girl whom he had been taken with at one time. After three days on the road, Quixote encounters a group of traveling salesmen whom he attacks after they refuse to acknowledge Dulcinea’s great beauty. He is badly beaten by the servant of the salesman and forced to accept the help of a neighbor, who brings him home on the back of a donkey.
While he is recovering, Quixote is forced to watch as his housekeeper, a barber, and a priest burn all his books on chivalry in an attempt to persuade him to give up his improbable quest. But this only fuels Quixote’s determination. He persuades Sancho Panza, a plump, simple-minded-but-opportunistic laborer, to serve as his page, by playing on his ambitions. Don Quixote promises Sancho his own island to govern, for surely such a splendid knight, as he is sure to become, will soon take many spoils. And so this pair set forth, Quixote on his spavined old horse, Panza mounted on Dapple, his mule. Their second adventure lasts for three weeks and is comprised of a series of events that comprise the balance of Book One. Among other things, Quixote battles windmills, thinking them to be giants. At an inn, which he mistakes for a castle, Quixote is visited in bed by a maid, who causes a great uproar when she discovers she has come to the wrong room. Refusing to pay the bill and accusing the innkeeper of being inhospitable, Quixote is rousted, only to fall promptly into another misadventure with a religious procession, and yet other ironic and error-prone encounters with locals. The story goes on and on. Don Quixote represent the foolish stupor the entire nation has fallen in as we approach the most important strategic destiny making decision which has ever faced this country, the choice between good and evil, a choice between change and the status quo.
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