I know many will disagree with my view below and that's fine. Some may consider my call unpatriotic - pretending that the elephant is not in the room. We make our beds and sleep in it.
My mantra these days is opposite to my previous beliefs - that I'm forced to abandon most. I will say to young Malaysians today....LEAVE MALAYSIA if/while you can!
Till about 2018, I was one of the increasingly smaller minority that believed we could save Malaysia from the Malays. You read me right.
When PH came into power and made some efforts to change/amend the terribly rotten system (top to toe, as wide as one can cast the net), I thought there was a new (and better) future for our kids and theirs'. Naively I thought it was the dawn of a new beginning. But PH just didn't have the support nor the energy to implement good things....the very first thing it should have done was to put the court cluster in jail immediately. No need to worry about the social outcry (nobody would have minded anyway except the cronies and the greedy). These buggers plotted to bring PH down to save themselves: Looks like it is working too.
I no longer believe "we" want a change...I think the Malays (note, I did not say bumis) do not want structural changes for the betterment of the country. If they did, given the atrocious judicial, official and endemic misconduct seen in the past 20 months, regardless of Covid 19, we would have had street protests as a minimum. The "urban" Malay has also given up (and indeed, I know many who are planning to immigrate) because if they say something, their clansmen will turn on them as being a traitor etc. Religion is (mis)used as a weapon with stupid and opportunistic edicts. The Malays just want a Malay controlled everything (politics, economics and social structure) and for that, corruption, thievery, incompetence and even murder, is acceptable. As long as the Cina babi or India keling are not given any power in this administration, it's ok. They like the 3 mongrels from MIC and MCA, and the few rats from the useless "Borneo" parties who kowtow to the UMNO masters, kissing the boot of PN and ilks.
Let's face it: 35% of Malay Malaysians, 51% of Indian Malaysians, 90% of Chinese Malaysians and 99% of Others (already feeling as a "dll") will (or have already) plan to leave Malaysia if things continue as now. The exception to this hypothesis are those who are either too old, too poor, too sickly or benefitting from a lucrative position/business/legacy (ie those who could't give a damn about the social morass because they have a leg elsewhere). Basically, those who have "no choice" are the only ones who will stay. Everyone else will move to greener (or saner) pastures.
As the day goes by, the question of whether GE15 can change the future, becomes immaterial. Even if we as a nation voted to change, the corrupt and immoral politicians will jump ship and do the same traitorous stunts as done in the past 20 months. Whether Maju/Independents can be the game changer, I doubt....many may still be tempted to switch camps after winning. The proposed law to disbar these frogs is unlikely to be passed before GE15, mark my words (I'd like to be proven wrong). Everyone knows we are in a sinking ship and there is a lack of will by those in power to change it. Let's face it, everyone (well, almost) is in politics (and GLCs) to make money and at some point, may jump ship bound for New Zealand perhaps. Afterall, it's been done.
Worse, those caught with their hands (and legs) in the cookie jar are being let off with a rap (not even a slap) on their palms. It's almost like, as long as you can "repay" some of the stolen loot, you can keep the rest and stand/remain as an elected rep. Well, they are not MY rep!
My dad tells me that this is the land of "milk and honey" that his father left Jaffna for in 1899. Unfortunately, my dad is stuck in the 1930's...this land stopped being the so-called Nirvana sometime in the early 1970's when Razak and his gang hatched a plot to take over the wealth of the nation for the benefit and power of a few. Contrary to what we had been lied about, Razak, in my opinion, had less than altruistic motives for many of his policies. (For those well read in the May 13, 1969 incident - you know who the real culprits were....but not for this piece). He plotted to create a Malay "control" elitist group and he succeeded. He called it the NEP. Did NEP work? The bigger villain Mahathir, in the guise of "modernisation", enriched his cronies (and some say, his family) with blatant financial abuses, nepotism, corruption and everything bad that ends with an "ism". Each premier after that just made things worse without plugging the rot. Some, stole billions. Even the "Sleepy" one was not untainted...a story for another day perhaps.
So for those who can leave, please do. For those who cannot personally but can send your kids abroad, please do so. Let's leave the Malays (and inevitably their cronies of all races) to enjoy whatever the future Malaysia holds. When the "milk and honey" have been sucked dry, they will turn on each other. I suspect at some time in the future, maybe even as soon as in the next 20 years, Sabah and Sarawak would have seceded - being unable to take this "Malay first/only" policies being dished out daily. For those who cannot leave, perhaps entering politics now would be a good idea.....if you can't beat them, join them ? Or maybe by then, the newer immigrants like Indonesians, Bangladeshis and Rohingyas would be running this country: Don't scoff.
For now, I see NO HOPE for the future with the bunch of clowns in power currently.
Go WEST young man....or even "under".
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