The sovereign legislator

THE EDITOR, Madam:

When hindsight knowledge is presented like accusation, rather than reflection for correction and solution, it apparently results in feuding that relegates it to futility. Perspective is a prism, recollections will differ. I see more substance being produced in this chat than some others, clearly because there is a good balance of those who sowed and watered the seeds of Jamaican society and those who have seen or consumed the harvest. Blame is never for anything good, so it is taken badly. A long-serving popular Jamaican legislator asked a relentless critic:

“Don’t you see your effort so far has been barren, as your blossoms bear no fruit? ... Be an agent of change, rather than just showing impotent rage.”

There is daily reinforcement that Jamaica is set in a dispensation where if you’re not a People’s National Party or Jamaica Labour Party legislator, you don’t make a difference. Constitutional sovereignty is, and always will be, in the legislature. Governance and sovereignty are synonymous. Any others who speak up are just making up the articulate minority challenging the no-mandate minority Government in vain. The media leads the infertile orchestra, and chat groups are tone-deaf sections.

HYLTON DENNIS