Fate is irrelevant when it comes to politics, Rosmah
The last time someone said it was his fate to lead a country, Adolf Hitler’s vision of a 1,000-year reich only lasted 6 years. Similarly in WW2 Japan, hardcore nationalists proclaimed that it was Japan’s fate to lead the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere by “liberating” countries under colonial rule. I’m sure everyone knows what happened in the end.
By saying that she is fated to become Malaysia’s first lady (quite an erroneous term, as pointed out in this article), she implies that Najib is equally fated to lead Malaysia. Now fate is something that lingers through each and every time you rise through the ranks or fall like a brick. It also follows you around from the moment you were born until you die. Even in the afterlife, fate might interfere with your burial plot! So if someone like Rosmah would make such a claim, I have to say that she is highly mistaken.
Instead of affixing leadership through an abstract concept such as fate, if we say that we practice leadership through example, most of our future leaders would be corrupted Machiavellians who are incapable and unwilling to listen to the views of the rakyat.
