By Togba-Nah Tipoteh
There is plenty talk about some persons getting fooled because they are old and can not figure out the right things to do. The relevant expression found in the Holy Scriptures says: what does the wisdom of Solomon have to do with the age of Methuselah. This expression is not in the Holy Scriptures for nothing. This expression is telling the Truth. We can learn the Truth by examining the records in history through books or stories from the Elderly.
From the Truth, we learn that some young people do the right thing while some old people do the wrong thing. Some young people do the wrong thing while some old people do the right thing. Some blind people do the right thing while some people who have good eyesight do the wrong thing. Some people who have good eyesight do the right thing while some people who are blind do the wrong thing. A blind woman took care of her Son who had good eyesight and worked as a Market Woman to send him to school until he became a national religious leader.
So, it is wrong for some people to go around blaming old and blind people for the doing of bad things. I am almost 83 years of age and nobody can fool me except Our Creator who will only tell me the Truth. This situation is possible because of learning to do the right thing and carrying it out. Many people, even some calling themselves progressives, talk a lot but do not Walk The Talk. No wonder the people of Liberia have concluded that Liberia is headed in the wrong direction (Afrobaometer, 2022).
We know that the prevailing direction is wrong because it promotes poverty generation rather than poverty alleviation. The promotion of poverty generation is the promotion of Business As Usual. The promotion of poverty generation is the making of the same mistakes. Therefore, it makes non-sense to talk about getting on the ground running when you are running in a political campaign only to get on the ground running backwards after the campaign. This getting on the ground running backwards is not surprising because the entity that you promote has the record of promoting the prevailing poverty generation system.
The only credible record is the record of working to change the prevailing poverty generation system. Only the people who love Liberia have a credible record because the work that they do promotes poverty alleviation. This work is working well, as seen in the non-re-election of the National Legislators who wanted to be re-elected, This work is the raising of awareness to motivate the people of Liberia to take action through the Rule of Law to transform the prevailing unfair electoral system into the enduring fair electoral system. It is only through this transformation that persons with good records can get elected to bring in the system of Justice, the indispensable ingredient for Peace and Progress in Liberia and in any other Country,
