From December 2:
Well, in all likelihood, he and his accomplishments will go the way of other politicians’, including those long-ago strongmen in whose ranks he clearly belongs. There is an inky abyss, a vacuum that awaits them all. It is a cross between Limbo and Purgatory, a living death for the egotistical and the once-mighty. Where once throngs sang their praises, there is only silence.
Five days after Williams announced his resignation, people still cry for his departure. Five weeks from now, they’ll be more concerned about Christmas credit card bills and if politics excites them, they’ll be watching the race to replace him. Five months from now and the province’s election campaign will be well under way.
Five years from now, people will struggle to remember that guy who parted his hair down the centre of his head. The collective amnesia on which Danny Williams built his cult of personality will swallow him as surely as it swallowed his predecessors.
Who the gods would destroy, they would first make proud.
And as we near the end of September the following year, we are nearing the edge of the abyss.
- srbp -