Malaysia in need of a miracle
The opposition parties have an un-holy partnering. The fact is you cannot have political parties with divergent ideologies and past history making a pact to offer a convincing alternative government.
By J. D. Lovrenciear
The many by-elections that have come and gone appear to be baked with a permanent mould.
Just before the run-up to voting day, you will see the entire machinery of politicians ascending on the rakyat with their wares and antics. The crowds that turn up for the opposition ceramahs night after night will give any uninitiated observer the belief that BN will walk away with it’s tail between its legs come polling day.
But when the votes are counted, BN takes the cake.
Never mind about the fact that the opposition will cry foul; though at times they had the better of wisdom to proclaim, “do not be disheartened.”
The rakyat at the warongs and kopitiams will tell you that many within the BN corridors are corrupted. Tales of wash basins and toilet bowls with gold plated trappings; holidays in the Alps; Lamborghinis and Ferraris in the garage; land grabs; and shopping sprees that will make Hollywood stars look like paupers; and many more tales abound.
The new media is over-flowing with all kinds of news of misappropriations, corruption, sedition, slander, and what have you – all darts trained at the BN.
But despite all these founded and unfounded allegations and tales of horror, the BN is confident of emerging as the chosen party to form the government time and time again. They have in fact. And they will in all probability.
Why is that so?
Simply because the opposition parties have an un-holy partnering. The fact is you cannot have political parties with divergent ideologies and past history making a pact to offer a convincing alternative government.
Their intentions may be profound. But the rakyat can see through all these. Just going by the media reports, one shudders to think how on earth are these political parties going to share power and govern when they already have had numerous differences on issues of public interest.
Trying to clarify or distance yourself or worse claiming that “it was personal viewpoint” when one politician blurts out a statement that others in the coalition know is not going down well with the rakyat will only further entrench the suspicion that un-holy partnering is not going to work.
If the rakyat have to vote BN out they will need to see singular parties built on their own ideologies and strengths.
The going strength of BN is it has one ideology with three component racial representation.
The setback of the opposition coalition is it has three different ideologies cemented under one leader for the three distinct races.
As such all the ensuing political battles are only going to weaken the nation over time.
And to make matters worse, the BN knows that it will keep winning based on the weakness of the conceptual alliance of its opponents. And so there is no significant effort on the part of BN to clean sweep its own backyard once and for all.
That again will compound the nation over time as leadership becomes weak and a regime takes hold.
In the final take, the rakyat will say ‘half a loaf is better than none’. Malaysia then truly needs a miracle to get out of this catch-22 dilemma.
