National unity through democracy or demagoguery? We hear the usual call for national unity loud and clear right now. National unity cannot spring out of a vacuum or from sterile political litanies. Political shibboleths like ‘National Unity’ go down well with the masses when demagogues who have no idea about such unity, roar about it to the ignorant masses. What political ideology guides the Sri Lankan people: Democracy or demagoguery?

Source: Sunday Times May 18, 2019 18:58 UTC