Andrew Sage

And you really have to be cognizant of it, especially as you're approaching people and make sure you're talking to them in their language.

They don't feel as though you're carrying yourself too big for your britches.

yeah definitely like the people who write the thick books can't be your like milieu you know you they can't be there i've used a stupid word but like if those are the people with whom you're sort of conversing in your head and then you begin to to speak in that language to people who aren't familiar with it it just sounds weird yeah like it it's yeah as you say you you get too big for your bridges and you sound pompous if you're not careful exactly exactly

And so for the, you know, big shot lawyer, as I say this, for big shot lawyers like Maurice Bishop and big shot economics lecturers like Bernard Cord and some of the other folks that had been part of the core of the party, they had to approach people in a particular way.

And they were successful in doing so under Eric Gehry and as they were part of the opposition.

But things were shifted.

Also at the turn of the 80s, we had a lot of moves against suspected counter-revolutionaries.

Imprisonment without trial.

So imagine again, people are thinking, this is what, the Monk Who's Gang 2.0?

The fear was starting to overtake the society.

It was starting to become cannibalizing, as I said.

So by the time we get to 1983, we find ourselves with a people bereft of the early days of hope, in a house divided, which famously cannot stand.

Unbeknownst to the public, there were tensions between Maurice Bishop and Bernard Cord since at least 1982, and Cord wasn't even part of the central committee of the neutral movement anymore for a while.

But within the vanguard, the party members still preferred Cord to Bishop,

Cord was seen as more intellectually equipped to lead with his knowledge of theory.

They started calling Bishop egotistic and counter-revolutionary.

I have to say, I love the double-edged sword of these kind of willy-nilly thought techniques and cliches because they can be used by you and then they could be used against you in a snap of the fingers.

Yeah, it goes back to your thing about hammers and nails that you mentioned before.

Indeed.

So eventually the party decided to bring court on as co-leader with Bishop.