One Malaysia?
Until today, Malaysians still had a very scant idea of what One Malaysia is all about?
By Choo Sing Chye
Conspicuously, the amount of One Malaysia information latched to the minds of the Malaysians after being bombarded by the Barisan Nasional overfed controlled media is difficult to determine.
This is not a big ‘Why’ question that needs plenty of grey matter upstairs – It does not.
Whatever it is, it will be a futile effort for anybody to blame the ordinary Malaysians for not trying hard to understand or too lazy to learn the hazy One Malaysia concept of Najib’s in the first place.
But the moment they start to get to the gist of the matter, his deputy, Muhyiddin strongly decrees the opposite, he does not want to be Malaysian first.
Malaysians are confused, is there another Malaysia? A Second Malaysia? One for the Bumiputras and another for the Non-Bumiputras?
None from the top beneficiaries of the One Malaysia plan came out to explain this, if they did, only vaguely. As a result, Malaysians continue to be confused.
Hulu Selangor presented the best opportunity for the Barisan’s government to explain to the Malaysians the real meaning of the One Malaysia concept.
But they blew it all away and eventually they missed the boat or sampan. The only thing that they could come out with is the Kamal-Alan-Nathan thing to represent a Malaysian entity.
Apart from this whimper, they had nothing else to show except going overdrive with their election machinery to generate an avalanche of hate, slander, defamation against Zaid Ibrahim.
Towards the end of the campaign, Barisan top leaders were so convinced of the 3,000 to 6,000 majority that they are willing to swear on the stacks of their remaining leaflets that it could be easily achieved.
Although, ordinary Malaysians in general had speculated far in advance that the gargantuan amount of money thrown into this by-election should earn the Barisan an ultra-expensive double RR – Rolls Royce, but unceremonially, the voters gave them a Kancil.
Conspicuously this massive ruthless racial jingle backfired and Barisan managed to secure a Kancil size majority of only 1,725 votes.
Thus by tolerating these racists’ viewpoint of the Barisan’s campaigners which noticeably similar in many ways with the value system of the Ku Klux Klan and the Skin Heads (White Supremacist), had inevitably blemished the One Malaysia concept and drove a substantial voters away from Barisan.
Shouldn’t these racists be living at the fringe, like the KKK in the United States and the Skin Heads in Europe?
Although the KKK and the Skin Heads are part and parcel of the society in the United States and the West, they are shunned by the local populace and pinned down to the outskirts of the mainstream politics and society.
But in One Malaysia, it is different.
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