Where is our nation heading?
My article has earlier appeared in the Beritadaily.com on 13/10/2015
This is what BN and its leaders are trying to emphasise to the people, confusing them between the so-called labelling of their 'stability' and others’ 'instability'. BN is now playing hard with such words to ensure the people are distracted from the BN’s various financial scandals and corruption.
On the other hand, the Opposition parties too are in no good position as they have been politicking continuously all this while instead of projecting themselves as an 'alternative government-in-waiting' in developing their policymaking and debates which benefit the people, the economy and the entire nation.
BN has also opted for racial and religious extremism to drum up support as a way to cover up their various financial scandals and corrupt activities, claiming that a particular race and a particular religion were under siege. In fact, BN has no more ideas on how to run this nation and to tackle the various socio-economic crises that are hitting the people so hard.
Pakatan Harapan, which was reborn from the demise of Pakatan Rakyat, is still bickering among themselves over the new opposition coalition. Their former ally, PAS, is trying its best to discredit its rival Islamist party Amanah as well as DAP, while doing all it could to instigate PKR to dismantle the new Pakatan.
We applaud DAP’s initiative to establish a shadow cabinet to oversee the BN government’s administration but the shadowing business has not yielded any results till today, as none of those DAP shadow spokesmen have ever come forward with their check and balance points and alternative policies, other than their popular shadow finance minister Tony Pua, who has gained much credit in exposing and questioning several financial irregularities in the BN government while trying hard to pressure the administration to repent of its sins.
On the other hand, the Left Coalition (Gabungan Kiri) led by Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) is focusing on its grassroots building, preferring to do its good job offline and unnoticed but it has been gaining momentum among the poor and underprivileged.
BN dangerously corrupt and destructive to the nation
However, PSM has yet to score its electoral points among the middle class who are still left wandering who PSM is.
Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), the oldest surviving leftist party in this nation and relatively unknown to the electorate, is still down following its humiliating defeat in the Permatang Pauh parliamentary by-election, coupled with infighting and factional disputes. PRM occasionally issues press release to various media on certain issues but has failed to gain any attention so far.
At the end of the day, the people could not get the best out of this. BN is dangerously corrupt and destructive to the nation. BN is working round the clock to bring politics away from the people. Pakatan Harapan has been refreshed but it is still bickering over its new marriage, instead of working hard to bring politics to the people. What is worse is that a splinter party may yet emerge from PKR and jeopardise the newborn opposition coalition.
As for the other opposition parties, they are far from being convincing to the people and the electoral population as a whole. The setback of these smaller opposition parties is their lack of policy factors, debates and presentation as a viable alternative for the people. By only laying out their manifestos during general elections is an ineffective way to convince the people to vote for them.
Our nation is in dire straits. Our nation needs reform desperately. But there is no dependable alternative political force to rival the strong-armed-bully-type ruling BN coalition and drive our nation out of all these economic ruins that have cost our nation billions of ringgit, thus affecting the people’s well-being and social order.
At least Greece is having Syriza now trying to rectify the damage done by the previous ruling parties, but our nation is still heading nowhere right now. So, to all politicians, what is next for the people and this nation?
It is time for our people to resume politics today, rather than to sit back waiting for nothing to progress.
