{"id":84313,"date":"2018-12-21T15:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84313"},"modified":"2018-12-21T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:26:19","slug":"fake-politics-of-the-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/21\/fake-politics-of-the-unp\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Politics of the UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is now well-known that many ‘stirring’ news items highlighted in major news channels are fake – bogus ‘plants’ designed to advance a barely hidden political agenda. On a larger scale there is such a thing as ‘Fake Politics’ where a situation of crisis – threats of diverse kinds – are artificially foisted on a gullible public to win political support that they would not have ordinarily received.<\/p>\n

In Sri Lanka there is supposed to be a burning ‘National Problem’ that is largely the product of the chauvinist and irrational sentiments of the Sinhala-Buddhist Majority.<\/p>\n

This Fake Thesis has ardent support within the UNP leadership as ploy to win friends and supporters among the Tamils – even if the naked truth is that the Tamils are mostly with the Sinhala people in the South and are doing wonderfully well.<\/p>\n

As a natural corollary of this fake thesis,\u00a0 the notion of ‘injustice’ enters the political lexicon – the resolution of which is seen to be the only path to peace and stability in Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 it is further argued that true progress is possible only after the installation in power of a Party that radically eschews all links with groups\u00a0 and influences that have roots in Sinhala-Buddhist nativism.<\/p>\n

Indeed this is now the ‘keystone’ in the Fake Political Arch that sustains the dreams and desires of the UNP leadership. They can win only by riding on the back of the minorities and disaffected cranks such as the JVP.<\/p>\n

In this enterprise, what is important is not the truth but the exploitability of Untruth – the creation of Myth of Racial Injustice. That the Tamils and other minority groups welcome such a political mindset is readily understandable as it is the\u00a0 chief route to the ‘separation’ that they ardently desire.<\/p>\n

While the Folly of the Tamils – if we are permitted to use such an opprobious phrase in describing the political shenanigans of the Tamil political leadership of Sri Lanka – is both explainable and understandable,\u00a0 the Ant-National Duplicity of the UNP cannot be exculpated on the basis of political expediency or the weak-headedness of its leaders. It is an astonishing fact that the Sinhala People – not the Tamils – have – and have had – leaders that loathe their own kind .<\/p>\n

We must go beyond politics and turn to cultural psychology to account for such anomalous behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma It is now well-known that many ‘stirring’ news items highlighted in major news channels are fake – bogus ‘plants’ designed to advance a barely hidden political agenda. On a larger scale there is such a thing as ‘Fake Politics’ where a situation of crisis – threats of diverse kinds – are artificially foisted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-chandrasoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}