Democracy is simple. The one who got the majority supports wins. But it gets tricky when you want to win the majority, but not getting support from them because of the difference in ethnic and religion.. This is where the strategy of divide and conquer applies. You know you cannot win solid majority but you can try splitting them apart to small groups, and thus make your minority support become a solid majority and eventually win the elections.
This is why one should never get frustrated when our great statesman, Tun Mahathir is cooperating with DAP right now. Although it has been proven many times before, including by the great Tun M and Anwar Ibrahim themselves, that DAP has the tendency of anti Islam and Malay supremacy policy; we must put ourselves in their shoes. In some way, we should be analyzing why these great former leaders tend to please the DAP when they are not with the federal government of BN anymore.
What many people perceived as the treachery act of Tun M on behalf of Malays, we would like to think the otherwise. Malays should realize that Tun M is actually being bullied and taken revenge on; just look at how a frail old Malay man being dragged here and there by those chauvinists and was make to admit that DAP is not Malay-o-phobia and Islamophobia. This is quite a record because for 22 years, nobody in UMNO or BN, government and Malaysia for that matter, can dictate what Tun M going to say and do; yet DAP able to pull it in no time at all. Sadly, most Malays still blinded by the never ending gutter politics among themselves thus let their own great leader degrading. Tun M is actually in subtle way showing to the Malays who actually holds the power in opposition pack and presenting the choice more vivid for those who can think.
Nevertheless, some of the Malay opposition supporters still has the ball to accuse the government of mistreating Tun M. How is this even possible when Tun M is being used as the DAP's mic around the country to white wash their chauvinists image without single interference from the government? Yes we admit that some of the BN cyber troopers are well above the rationality line when they attacking Tun M; but yet it is understandable that it maybe because of the deep frustrations when their father mentor went away to the opposite side. Still, as many has been said before, those vicious attacks from the BN machinery should not give even a minor dent to Tun M compared to what he did for himself aligning with DAP.
In a liberal democratic country such as Malaysia, we should never stop other people from expressing their personal political beliefs, for what ever reason; if we ever call ourselves as the defenders of democracy. The same goes to Tun M. We should give him what ever legal space for him to express himself. Let the people judge themselves on his actions and lets stop all this personal attacks and name calling. The same goes with the tactics of peudo-events i.e. digging up past dark secrets during Tun M administration. Like what we have revealed before, employing pseudo-events as political communication strategies may greatly backfired. We are actually providing to the people more reasons not to vote for the BN government by telling them that past BN administration has a lot of corrupt cover up practices.
To be fair, just let Tun M goes the same path as what Gerakan, PAS, and some pakatan leaders has experienced before, if that what he chooses. Sometimes the other way of history learning is by repeating the mistakes. Who knows Tun M may actually doing the kamikaze maneuver for one last time?
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