Ambrose M. Bennett
THE Truth is the CNMI has been under Republican Rule since 1998, yet WE have been constantly going BACKWARDS ever-since, which no one can deny if they were awake. In fact, the MV Poll clearly shows that around 50% have plans or want to leave the CNMI for the Real America on the mainland. The CNMI’s migration pattern is telling a very chilling story about Republicans regardless of their different titles (Covenant & Independent[s]) they have used to get elected (poli-tricks). Our Republican party that claims to be so big & powerful had only one plan (casino) for over a decade and now look! Conservatism has virtually No Reaction Time, as it took decades for MPLT Legislation FOR NMDs and it’s going to take another decade to fix the Cannabis & Casino Commissioners MISTAKE — no oversight. The nonfunctional Mariana Resort that I BEGGED to remain the last Japanese Hotel under Kan Pacific is almost a decade old. Conservatism is only good for “preserving certain ideals, policies & practices” but does NOT have the capacity to “promote systemic Change, Growth and New Development.” Republican voters on the fringes of the Party really need to CHANGE, as you are the swing vote if the CNMI is to find prosperity. WE must also ask ALL candidates for office “What did WE get from the MACS Deal” — duh!
WE the People on the mainland and in the CNMI are faced with the challenge of “conservatism v liberalism” in the simplest of terms, as it’s like Albert Einstein said, “you can’t fix a problem with the same (conservatism) mind-set that caused the problem.” The CNMI’s confessed Republican and #1-Bigot Bully Saipan Man who twist facts & LIES about Ambrose behind a fake name is OK with the 34 Count Convicted Fellon & twice Impeached President making Billion Dollar shakedowns of Education & Media Institutions, his decimating of Medicaid, Immigration Kidnappings and more — that’s Republicans for you. Heck, Our Economy is literally on “Life-Support in ICU due to our impotency in the “World’s Competitive Industry of Tourism” while Saipan Man & Republicans try to discourage Ambrose’s Economic progressive ideas regardless of their merits when WE must Learn-To Grow Big & Compete! So, will the Dems, GOP & Independents put “real Political Retail Items (Reforms) on the shelf for voters” or the Same-O! WE the People can’t let this election be a “popularity contest” but about “fixing (reforming) the CNMI” by asking candidates the HARD Questions — what’s their Oversight & Economic Plans.
Political Scientists & Economists across the nation have even been yelling & screaming “WE have chosen BADLY with Trump” and Ambrose has been doing the same in the CNMI about continuing the Same-O TAYA with Republicans. Too many Republican voters on the mainland and in the CNMI have been choosing badly all in the name of Party over Who is BEST FOR the People. With nearly half of the citizens in the CNMI being “at or below the poverty level” one would think the CNMI would be fighting to be BLUE instead of Red. Our CNMI general election is right around the corner, and I pray voters will DEMAND for the Gubernatorial & Legislative Candidates to meet the challenge of formulating a genuine Economic Recovery Plan to Reform the CNMI or it’s the Same-O! Just as Republican voters on the mainland are finally seeing the Light-of-Truth thanks to the Epstein files with Protests against Trump, one can only wonder What & When will our continued economic demise make CNMI Republican voters say ENOUGH! With CNMI Republicans being the biggest voting bloc who VOTED us into this mess must also be the biggest contributors to voting the CNMI out-of-this-mess. But the same FEAR that Trump has installed is also common knowledge in the CNMI. No one wants to talk against Republicans for FEAR of retaliation. It seems only Senator Babauta & Rep. Marissa Flores are fighting FOR the People & Accountability. End this FEAR voters and Teach Republicans a lesson, as you vote in total privacy and they won’t know unless you tell them!
Election season really started the day-after the last election as WE can see the CNMI still doesn’t have a real answer to turning our Economy around while Hotels & Businesses are literally facing DEATH! And Trump after only six months in his term is in real trouble of being Impeached AGAIN! I actually feel sorry for Republican voters everywhere when Trump called them “stupid & said I don’t need your support anymore,” yet too many continue to support him only watching FOX, Trump’s Station that “spoon-feeds poli-tricks, gaslighting & deflecting” to watchers who never knowing the truth needing to watch CNN or any Fair & Objective News Outlet. Trump is even using the “DOJ now the DOT (Dept. of Trump) to get revenge and silence Liberal Media Outlet! However, as my MaDear might surely say in her wisdom, “being fed a half-truth is really making you eat a whole LIE” which is the reality for Republican Voters, just look at the CNMI after over a decade of Republican Rule. The CNMI needs to make DRASTIC Changes because thinking and doing only a little but wanting BIG returns defies the Economic Laws and even Common Sense for finding prosperity! My MaDear also told me with her incontrovertible wisdom that “the big fish eat all the little fish, and you must learn to grow big.” The CNMI must “grow-big” if WE are to reap the kind of revenues needed and desired for real prosperity, as Guam is constantly staying in the lead of the Tourism Race. The sooner our leaders realize WE must compete & start competing the Better-off WE will be in the real competition to become a “Leader in the Tourism Industry for our Region,” as it’s about the CNMI WINNING, not the Republican Party!
One People, One Direction to Change our leadership & the CNMI for the BETTER!
Ambrose M. Bennett is an Economist who minored in Sociology, a Political Scientist, a retired teacher & former CNMI Board of Education Member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays-Lifetime Humanities & Religious Scholar who resides in Kagman III in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
