Live and let live! The future is above all else, at the moment!

This was what mattered most in GE13, and it still is for GE14 at the moment …
Live and let live! The future is above all else, at the moment!

Malaysians are a funny lot! They are unable to embrace magnanimity, neither can they forgive and move on for the future.

In so doing, they are unable to secure a brighter future for themselves and for the greater good of Malaysians and Malaysia.

So, is it a wonder that they are stuck with such an incompetent federal government that is slowly but surely turning dictatorial with arrogance and impunity?

And because they are unable to embrace all the above, they are also unable to face reality.

So, don’t complain why you have the racist Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) squeezing and milking you and your country dry, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

After 69 years of Merdeka (Independence) 1957, for which the Alliance-BN coalitions have ruled Malaysians until today, isn’t there enough bitter lessons to be learnt?

Don’t Malaysians realise that there is no other way to get rid of Umno and BN other than denying them the ballots at a general election (GE). And the next GE will be the 14th in 69 years.

Yes. In GE13, some 52 per cent of voters, for the first time in Malaysia’s electoral history, gave the popular vote to the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat (now Pakatan Harapan).

Anything But Umno at the moment …

But, unfortunatley for Malaysians and Malaysia, due to BN’s gerrymandering and a super BN-friendly Election Commission, the Umno-led BN continues to rule.


Why? Because there are still a size-able percentage of Malaysians who continue to provide blind support to BN for crumbs, without realising the dire short and long-term consequences of returning their mandate to arrogant and incompetent selfish politicians.

And the socio-economic and political woes of the majority will continue unabated if that size-able percentage of majority don’t change, and those who have changed cannot think out of the box and face political reality. (Read these for context: http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/08/1mdb-najib-led-umno-to-rule-malaysia.html, http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/08/mahathir-race-based-bersatu-only-way-to.html and http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/08/malaysian-politics-facing-reality.html)

And No New Is Bad News is reproducing a short but crisp commentary posted by online news portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT):

"Nonsensical demands on Mahathir
Shahril Ahmad

| September 12, 2016

The opposition solves none of its problems by taking opportunistic shots at the ex-PM.
COMMENT

Let us begin this discussion by getting the facts out of the way. As the longest reigning Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad spent more than two decades in power and in that time put in place many of the mechanisms now used by the ruling party to frustrate the opposition. It was Mahathir who took away the check-and-balance power of the monarchy.

In the face of his old weapons being so deftly wielded against him, Mahathir has put together PBBM, which offers former DPM Muyhiddin Yassin as the opposition coalition’s Prime Minister candidate.

And the crows are coming home to roost with a vengeance. Mahathir’s history of silencing his political opponents has caught up with him as the people he seeks to cooperate with realise that the hour for revenge has come. For example, Saari Sungib, a former ISA detainee and now an official of Parti Amanah Negara, has added his voice to calls for Mahathir to show remorse and to repent.

Saari says he is more than willing to work with the old doctor, but he has imposed a condition: Mahathir must first own up to his alleged misdeeds and apologise openly to the people and to Anwar Ibrahim.

We don’t know yet whether Saari is speaking for himself, for Amanah, or for Pakatan Harapan, but we can expect similar statements from opposition figures in the coming days.

However, such demands are nonsensical. The opposition has no plan and no agenda for the next GE. Despite all the scandals Barisan Nasional has been associated with, it is still set to win because the opposition parties have been more content to engage in infighting than to work towards the election. Right now, they can’t afford to push Mahathir away. They need to embrace him.

Anyway, it’s not as if Mahathir has not been apologising. Indeed, he has been on something of an apology tour in the past couple of months. He obviously knows that his first challenge is to build momentum against Najib by winning over the opposition’s supporters.

The opposition must realise that its support will continue to bleed as long as it keeps its head in the sand. It takes strong grassroots support to gain momentum for an electoral fight, and the question that remains is whether Mahathir’s voters will drift towards PKR, DAP, and Amanah and vice versa. Both sides will need to justify their partnership to their grassroots.

Failure to do so will mean giving BN another five years and paving the way for Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi. Now, wouldn’t that be something to have to apologise to the people for?"