I
am still in two minds about DAP. One part of my mind tells me that once the
Chinese put their mind to do politics they get better at it day by day. The
other part of my mind questions whether this auger’s well for a Malaysia that
is now politically dominated by the Malays. One does not compliment the other.
Think!
Within
the Pakatan Rakyat coalition an uneasy axis awaits resolution while balanced
perilously between a PAS that wants Malaysia to be an Islamic country and
those within DAP, whose rallying cry is secularism! PKR is doing a “NAJIB”…they will wait
and see before committing itself to a stance that it perceives to be immediately
politically advantageous to PKR....that and nothing else matters!
Within
Barisan Nasional, Umno is that self appointed Malay champion in the Malay
dominated political entity that has sworn to stand in the way of DAP’s (read Chinese here)
secular blasphemy that will forever condemn the Malay race to the abyss of
irrelevance, economic and certainly racial oblivion! So says Umno!
DAP
and Umno emerge unquestionably as the “go to” party from both coalition if one
is to hitch one’s fortune (financially and politically!) with any hope of
success in the immediate or long term future.
All
this makes for a robust political arena ready for the 14th general
election due in …oh…. give or take.....3 to 4 years time.
DAP
can only get better if it does not deviate from it’s oft repeated intent to be
a Malaysian entity.
UMNO
will first have to reclaim its vigor and it’s “oomph” - both lacking in buckets load. Then it must get it’s act
together to charge down the last furlong if it does not want the 14th general election to
be the year they are unceremoniously bundled out of Putrajaya.
DAP
have not quiet got it’s act together in going down the “we are Malaysian” path.
Maybe…just maybe…PKR and DAP should merge and in one swoop become that “we are
Malaysian” entity. I am not going to insult PAS by suggesting they consider
being part of this equation but it is time for Pakatan Rakyat to become a legal
entity and find a place for PAS, DAP and PKR to mingle and mix within it.
Whether they can or will do so is moot.
In
essence we know that what Umno and DAP has said they will do and try to do is
far from being done. …even as they know that time is running out…for saying is
one thing…doing is another. Cakap bukan serupa bikin.
Of
course it is not for a lack of trying!
Kit Siang with his Dyana in Teluk Intan
and KJ with his apology for the recent fracas caused by his Pemuda boys on the
DAP Hq….but all this is just silap mata! Candy to the eyes of the electorates
and anybody else watching.
Until
DAP or Umno gets real we shall continue to se these silap
mata and eye candy being thrown our way every now and then….more now than then!
In
reality, Lim Kit Siang has taken the de facto mantle of being leader in the
Pakatan Rakyat coalition. Do not shush me up on this one…was it not Anwar who
started all this de facto stuff?
In
Umno nothing stirs. No de facto leader emerging yet. Nobody prepared to take
Umno by the scruff of its neck and shake it all about to rid it of the lice and
parasites hibernating amongst the hair on its head. So we wait.
While
we wait our people, our country, our economy, our pride at being Malaysian and
our very existence are being threatened by an inept government unable to see
beyond its nose and unwilling to govern beyond its own vested interest.
Who
then will take us out of this malaise? I tell you that person has not been
found yet. Certainly not Anwar not Najib.
And so we wait.
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