The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday 31st, 2023
2023 Presidential Campaign: Open Season of Insultfest by Kola King
There is some sort of nostalgia for the political campaigns of the past. No matter the shortcomings of our past political leaders, they laid emphasis on the main issues as well as their plans for implementing the political programmes which they had in store for the people. It is not as if they were paragons of virtue but hardly was there any recourse to personal insults and brickbats. There was a measure of civility and decency during the campaigns and soapbox speeches were seasoned and spiced with wisecracks, anecdotes, and grand oratory. Back in the day, politicians on the hustings were a delight to reporters covering them and the crowd that came out to welcome them and listen to what they had in store for the populace.
This time the political campaigns are a different kettle of fish. To be specific, the 2023 presidential election campaigns have been anything but civil. Actually, the campaigns have turned out to be a festival of insults or an insultfest. The campaigns have been long on insults and short on ideas. More, the campaigns have generated more heat than light. Generally, the elections have been characterised by mudslinging, character assassination, vitriol, scurrilous attacks, and venomous bile and bitterness. These election campaigns will take the cake as the vilest and most venomous in the nation’s political history. As a result of this, the main issues that are germane to the electorate are being swept under the carpet and buried under the avalanche of insults, bromide, verbal grenades, and vitriol. If left unchecked, the ocean of insults and hate speech is capable of sinking the ship of our fledgling democracy.
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In a new room #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Shadows dancing, lost and found,
stars above, make no sounds;
from the moon, ghostly abstractions
fill my room with playful distractions.”
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A fistful of cactus #47 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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