Purity Is A Knife That Cuts Back
The article calls the NPP’s pre-election posture “puritanical.” That is the problem with purity politics. It wins because it sounds clean. Then it governs, and the knife turns around. If you campaign like saints, you cannot govern like ordinary operators and act shocked when people notice the smell. The NPP did not come to power saying: we are just another party, please lower your expectations. No. They came as the moral correction. They came as the audit. They came as the file-openers. They came as the punishment of arrogance. They came as the end of the dirty room. So now they must live under the light they switched on. That is not unfair. That is the contract. If you sell yourself as soap, do not complain when people ask why the water is still brown.
