For politicians, it’s only about power
The politicians forget that it is us, the rakyat, who decide on their fate. It is us who decide if we want them to govern us.
CT Ali, FMT
I read that a blogger (I am sorry but I cannot bring myself to utter or write his name!) is going to stand as an independent against Anwar Ibrahim in Permatang Pauh.
What does he think this 13th general election is going to be? His road to glory, fame and wealth?
Do wannabe politicians no longer measure their ability to succeed in the electorate that they intend to contest by their ability to serve the rakyat? By their ability to present themselves as candidates deserving of the rakyat votes? Are elections a joke now?
And why does he want to contest?
Not to better the people’s lot! Not to serve his electorate! No! He wants “to expose more alleged sex videos during the campaigning period”.
How insulting is this to the constituency that he will contest in? Does he think that they would prefer sex tapes to food on their table? Is that now what budding politicians should strive to do?
How do Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat choose their candidates? Winnability, they say. The electorate be dammed!
What matters is winning the election. And if this is the public façade that these politicians willingly allow us to see, imagine what they will do within the four walls of their political enclave in order to ensure that they do win.
Do you not worry at the things they will do, the intrigues they will indulge in and how “winning” will excuse any act, however foul as long as it will ensure “winning”? What madness is this?
How are we to choose our representative that we send to Parliament to represent us? How do these candidates translate “winnibility” into votes for themselves and for the party that closes all eyes to anything else but the getting of political power?
It would seem that both BN and Pakatan are now seriously descending into an orgy of handing out cash through BRIM or any other plausible avenues in the name of helping the rakyat.
There are promises of cheaper petrol, cars, promises of more gutter politics, promises of burying each other in god knows what.
Anything but nation building. Anything else but the common good of our people and our nation.
Anything else but decent, open, responsible and good governance.
Winning at any costs
Look at the Malaysia we have today: a blogger could even think of challenging the leader of the opposition because he thinks that the “sex tapes” he has is reason enough for him to do so.
A national debt of over RM502 billion and still this BN government keeps making beggars of its own people because it keeps giving out cash handouts.
And a Pakatan opposition that now joins this irresponsible BN government in the race to give out more to the people.
