To all those who think the Dominica Reform Party is insignificant. The reason you think it is because you have become so comfortable with national decline that anything above your expectations feels threatening. You have lived under poverty, collapsing systems and empty promises for so long that you now defend them as if they are achievements. That is not political awareness; that is political hypnosis.
If your idea of a functioning Dominica is high taxes, poor health care, poverty, no jobs, struggling schools and a future one major hurricane away from collapse, then it is no surprise you call anyone who challenges that insignificant. When a person’s standards are buried so low, of course, real progress looks confusing to them.
Roosevelt Skerrit has spent years mastering the art of convincing people that hardship is normal. His psychology training taught him how to mould minds, and his English degrees taught him how to wrap failure in pretty sentences so that supporters would applaud decline. Unfortunately, many citizens absorbed that message so deeply that they now defend every mistake as if it were an achievement.
You are free to remain trapped in that political mindset, but please understand something very clearly: You are not the type of citizen who drives change. You are the type who protects the same failure of leaders who created the mess. You are the type who believes loyalty is more important than development. And you are the type who tries to pull others down simply because you refuse to rise yourself.
- Some of us refuse to live like that.
- Some of us refuse to normalize suffering.
- Some of us refuse to pretend that decline is a national destiny.
- Some of us want a nation that works, not one that survives on excuses.
If you choose to remain satisfied with national failure, that is your decision. But understand that your willingness to accept decline as normal harms you more than it does. It holds back the very people you claim to love and the nation we all share. Dominica deserves better than blind obedience dressed up as patriotism. Dominica deserves citizens who can think for themselves, not citizens who defend collapse because they have become used to it.
