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Narcissism \u2013 \u201cExcessive self-admiration\u201d; \u201coverestimation of [one\u2019s] abilities and an excessive need for\u00a0admiration.\u201d<\/p>\nNarcissism \u2013 \u201cExcessive self-admiration\u201d; \u201coverestimation of [one\u2019s] abilities and an excessive need for\u00a0admiration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Megalomania \u2013 \u201cAn excessive enjoyment in having power over other people and a craving for more of it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDelusions of great power and importance.\u201d<\/p>\n
A healthy ego is one thing.\u00a0\u00a0But there is a classic joke that speaks to the egomania of some, a variation of which\u00a0may go something like this.\u00a0\u00a0Perry Christie and God are out for a walk, with Christie hailing onlookers.\u00a0\u00a0One of the\u00a0onlookers hails back and asks, \u201cWho\u2019s that fellow walking with Christie?\u201d<\/p>\n
This would be funny if it did not speak to a certain troubling mindset at the heart of government, with the prime\u00a0minister narcissistically seemingly unable to accept responsibility for his failures or to internalize certain criticisms\u00a0and make the necessary changes.<\/p>\n
He is perpetually passing the buck as if his failures are usually the fault of others.\u00a0\u00a0He basically blamed the failed\u00a0mortgage relief programs on officials in the Ministry of Finance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Never mind that he is the Minister of Finance.\u00a0\u00a0He threw his officials under the bus for this spectacular failure.<\/p>\n
Recall this split personality excuse for the mismanaged VAT roll-out:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister of Finance wants to go ahead with VAT as indicated, all of the mechanisms are in place for VAT to\u00a0move forward, that is the Minister of Finance, but you are talking to the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister will\u00a0hear you and the Prime Minister has not joined with the Minister of Finance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The excuses and the blame game by Christie seem to know few bounds.\u00a0\u00a0Despite his party\u2019s bold promises on\u00a0crime yet failures and delay in instituting certain promised responses, Christie also decided to throw the leadership\u00a0of the police force under the bus:<\/p>\n
\u201cI said to the Minister of National Security, I\u2019m not prepared to have my own legacy, my own reputation, be tied to\u00a0a total reliance on the Royal Bahamas Police Force and to the leadership of that force.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy own legacy, my own reputation\u201d? Innocent people are being killed and people are terrified and distraught, and\u00a0Christie is worrying about his legacy?\u00a0\u00a0What a stunningly self-absorbed statement.\u00a0\u00a0Message to the police from\u00a0Christie: You\u2019re making me look bad.<\/p>\n
EXASPERATED<\/strong><\/p>\n The country is probably in its worse shape since the drug-plagued 1980s.\u00a0\u00a0The majority of Bahamians seem\u00a0exasperated by Christie\u2019s endless blather and nonsensical talk, exhausted by his endless empty performances, like\u00a0his recent disjointed press briefing<\/p>\n Yet, as if in some parallel universe and a la-la-land of his own design, Christie continues to barnstorm the country\u00a0and take to the airwaves painting a rosy picture of things to come,\u00a0\u00a0things which usually seem still somewhere over\u00a0the rainbow, far, far away.<\/p>\n Christie\u2019s full-blown egomania has resulted in all manner of grandiosity and pomposity.\u00a0\u00a0He keeps audiences\u00a0waiting.\u00a0\u00a0He continues to speak in the most overwrought manner, typically with little of substance, yet laced with\u00a0anecdotes of his self-importance.<\/p>\n To a group of children from the Centreville urban renewal program, the prime minister\u2019s egomania and conceit\u00a0were on full display.\u00a0\u00a0He boasted:<\/p>\n \u201cI went to school with plenty people who were smarter than me.\u00a0\u00a0But you see they all work for me now.\u201d<\/p>\n There are so many things wrong with this statement.\u00a0\u00a0But just a few.\u00a0\u00a0Public service officers work for the Bahamian\u00a0people.\u00a0\u00a0They will be there after Christie is no longer in office.<\/p>\n People in the private sector do not work for Christie, though he seems to think that everyone in the country works\u00a0for him.\u00a0\u00a0Not even an absolute monarch would make such a statement, except that is, King Perry I.\u00a0\u00a0Mirror, mirror\u00a0on the wall, who is the fairest of them all: Perry Gladstone Christie.<\/p>\n Worse than Christie\u2019s narcissism is the poor lesson and wrong message he communicated to those impressionable\u00a0school children.<\/p>\n At a Chamber of Commerce conference King Perry I referred to himself as \u201cI, the country.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0He has referred to\u00a0himself as a gladiator.\u00a0\u00a0He asked people at an event in Bimini to look at him:<\/p>\n \u201cThey are wondering about how old I am.\u00a0\u00a0Tell them how I look.\u00a0\u00a0They are concerned about whether I have energy.\u00a0\u00a0Tell them to challenge me.\u201d<\/p>\n Having stacked the PLP with Stalwart Councillors loyal to him, this is something of an empty boast.\u00a0\u00a0With only\u00a0elected branch delegates to a PLP convention voting minus Christie\u2019s appointed Councillors he might face defeat\u00a0as PLP leader.<\/p>\n PONTIFICATOR<\/strong><\/p>\n Christie, the great pontificator, in defending his public relations stopover to visit Pope Francis talked about the\u00a0great international marketing payoff of the Bahamian prime minister visiting the pontiff.\u00a0\u00a0This is so laughable as\u00a0not to require comment.<\/p>\n Christie is enthralled with the trappings of his office such as his seeming constant need for police outriders, with\u00a0crisp uniforms and sirens blaring heralding his presence.<\/p>\n He loves travelling with a retinue of officials attending him, announcing that he is not simply a VIP, but an MIP,\u00a0the Most Important Person in the land.<\/p>\n Christie\u2019s egomania is such is that he is now out of touch, often seemingly callous and indifferent in some of his\u00a0attitudes and comments.\u00a0\u00a0With many Bahamians struggling to buy food and pay for cooking gas he boasted of his\u00a0sending his Christmas ham and turkey out to be cooked by a resort chef.<\/p>\n With his government having no housing record of which to boast, with many Bahamians unable to pay their\u00a0mortgages and with tight government finances, he wants to build an official residence for the prime minister.\u00a0\u00a0With\u00a0him likely to run again, he would revel in living in such a grand residence, perhaps overlooking the ocean.<\/p>\n Now Christie says that the prime minister should have a coat of arms.\u00a0\u00a0In our system there is a national coat of\u00a0arms and one for the Governor General, who represents the monarch.\u00a0\u00a0It would be inappropriate for the head of\u00a0government to have a coat of arms.\u00a0\u00a0Ours is not a presidential system.<\/p>\n Perhaps Christie would now like an equivalent of the Hail to the Chief anthem that greets a US president at certain\u00a0events.<\/p>\n Christie\u2019s central governing flaw is that he seems to view his office mostly as performance art and public relations.\u00a0\u00a0But when it comes to the hard work of governance he proves endlessly incompetent and incapable, poor at moving\u00a0a policy through to completion, accomplishing little and mired in endless delays.<\/p>\n He bragged about whispering in the ear of the Chinese President the desire for a national stadium.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Never mind\u00a0that the Chinese were building stadiums for just about any country that asked.<\/p>\n DECISION<\/strong><\/p>\n Moreover, Christie got to ask the president because the FNM made the studied decision to recognize the People\u2019s\u00a0Republic of China, which the PLP had failed to do.<\/p>\n When it came to actually building the stadium and putting in the attendant infrastructure it was the Ingraham\u00a0administration which did the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n So at the official opening Christie sat peeved that he was not at the center of attention, which, for him, seems to be\u00a0much of what his prime ministership is all about.<\/p>\n At heart Christie is like a ringmaster or ringleader in a circus, \u201cthe one who stage-manages the performance,\u00a0introduces the various\u00a0acts, and guides the audience through the entertainment experience.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is traditionally the ringmaster’s job to create a sense of\u00a0hyperbole\u00a0whenever possible while introducing the acts.\u00a0\u00a0Declarations of the \u2018biggest,\u2019… , \u2018amazing,\u2019 \u2018spectacular,\u2019 and similar expressions are common, regardless of the\u00a0actual caliber of the performance \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cThe ringmaster is responsible for maintaining the smooth flow of the show \u2014 or at least an appearance of it.\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0may be called upon to fill time by talking or by joking with a clown if an act is not ready for its entrance.\u201d<\/p>\n At the center of attention the ringmaster gets to wear a topcoat, tails and a tall top hat, all drawing the audience\u2019s\u00a0attention to him.<\/p>\n When audiences attend the circus they expect magic tricks and illusions, performance art and spectacle.\u00a0\u00a0When a\u00a0government comes to office, citizens expect something quite different.<\/p>\n Alas, Perry Christie seems quite often not to know the difference between being a ringmaster and being prime\u00a0minister.<\/p>\n And for this the country is paying a great price, even as Christie continues to playact in his three ring\u00a0circus, a term also defined as, \u201ca situation of confusion, characterized by a bewildering variety of events or\u00a0activities\u201d all amounting to very little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christie\u2019s full-blown egomania has resulted in all manner of grandiosity and pomposity. 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