My friends they all ask me eh Firdaus if u are umno person how come u attack umno? well i said to them isnt it obvious, that if u love the party, u must be the first person to go up there and tell the leadership what is wrong with the party? isnt it also obvious that those in denial are also ass kissers who are just there for the money? oh well.
so i think this time im going to 'attack' the natural opponents of UMNO.
my friends also ask me what do i think of the possibility of DSAI becoming PM and forming a new government. well, i think the obvious answer to this is that in the current political spectrum, of course lah everything is possible.
but not many people realise that DSAI has bigger problem than just forming the next government.
I think yes, he can form government. BUT the real question is, does he want to?
Why?
think about it, if Anwar becomes Prime Minister, who will be the Deputy Prime Minister?
Assume it is Hadi Awang. Hadi?? you must be kidding me, the old man cant even speak english properly, he is viewed as almost like a taliban like figure by most DAP and Chinese/Indian people in this country, and he becomes DPM by virtue as him the president of Pas?
OK lah, we say lah DAP says ok this.
But who will be the Finance Minister?
Lim Kit Siang? you think the Malays in PAS and Keadilan will not jump against this? these malays in PAS and Keadilan are as racist as the ones in UMNO, and they will go up in arms against a chinese finance minister.
OK lah, we assume lah Anwar manage to control PAS and DAP from fighting..
But who will be the other senior ministers? Defence Minister, Internal Securities Minister?
if Anwar picks Malay ministers from Keadilan or PAS, i am sure DAP will not be happy, because they are the second largest party in Parliament. Malays in PAS and PKR will not be happy too if DAP fills in the traditional malay ministries.
Anwar cannot have a malay cabinet because he has to maintain the multicultural form. the question is, will the hardcore malays who supports pakatan rakyat ready for this mind shift? i doubt it.
Not to mention, the assumption of him becoming govt is that Sabah and Sarawak MP's cross. Well this is just an assumption. but if this happens, surely he must also concede to have them in his cabinet.
at the end of the day, i am sure he has to make do with a more multicultural cabinet.
well personally, this is the malaysia i want to see in the future. but practically now, i dont think malays have had this mindshift. malays as the majority in this country we are stil the america that we see 100 years ago.divided on racial grounds. worse than america, we all dont even share the same religion. at least obama and clinton are both christians (albeit of diff spectrums).
i know Anwar realises that he cannot have a multicultural cabinet. not only will the malay revolt, i dont think this will go down to well with the royalty to start with (bastion of malay rights), the generals (99percent malays) civil service (90 percent malays) and not to mention the ulamak's (although islam dont promote racism)
in the end, malays ( in UMNO and PAS especially) are still the same old malays who believes in malay supremacy as per before election. those of you who thinks we are suddenly more multicultural are so out of touch with the ground.dont believe me, well let see what happens on the ground when DSAI forms a multicultural cabinet.
I think Anwar knows that he has all the time in the world now. He is just waiting for UMNO to do its in fighting, while he tries to solve his cabinet selection problem.
Anwar also i think realises that if he doesnt get it right the first time, people may forever not believe in Pakatan Rakyat after this. It might even cease to exist.
They all only believe in defeating UMNO and BN. My question to them is, when UMNO and BN is defeated, then what?
Shouldnt he be pacifying the malay supremacist view in the malay heartlands esp in the Pas territories? Shouldnt he be pacifying the right wing chinese views too? can he do this? this is the hard hitting question that UMNO should be asking anwar.
to be fair, i also believe in malaysia malaysia. but in this political game, i dont think umno is attacking the opposition enough. well, we are too busy ourselves i guess.
In my opinion, there are fundamental idealism problems between PKR, Pas and DAP.
It is a tripartite relationship, of which non agrees with each other, but united on the front of defeating Barisan Nasional as a government.thats all.
Let us start with the fundamentals
PKR is a party which wants to believe in the idea of Malaysia for Malaysia, united cross cultural party. This is a good thing really. But What they believe, may not be represented in what they do or say. Keadilan leadership are mostly ex umno people who supported anwar, middle class Malays who doesn’t support PAS supposedly extreme views ( or more like kampong image) , a fraction of ABIM or islamist educated from OVERSEAS. Many young professionals who are overseas or modern educated ( local private college) would also usually support Keadilan because of their vision of Malaysia Malaysia (and disgust of BN’s corruption).Many don’t see that all political parties are also corrupted in one way or another. The Chinese who supports Keadilan are usually the banana’s (English speaking/modern educated), and now it seems that Indians (across board) are supporting keadilan because they don’t have other options (mic and ppp deemed useless) and DAP are deemed to be too Chinese for obvious reasons. Notice that at the end, its still about racial politics.
DAP is a party which has good ideals too. Like PKR, it wants to believe in democratic ideals that Malaysia shouldn’t be divided along political lines. But DAP’s problem is that it is ‘seen’ to be as an alternative of MCA. Why? Because the leaders and membership are like 90 percent Chinese, and even at the crunch of issue, they will put Chinese issues above democratic issues. This I think is because as a political party, what matters for them are the votes they get. Many Malays view DAP in really really bad terms, as they feel that DAP represents the more extreme Chinese who would strongly fight for Chinese issues. This is ironic because it is the MCA who traditionally have this role. But now since many (both Malays/Chinese) see MCA being pacified by UMNO, the role of fighting for Chinese extreme right are seen to be taken by DAP.
PAS is a party which supposedly has Islamic views as its heart. They actually started from the Islamic wing of UMNO. Many people forget this. So technically, they are still right wing Malays who only just so happen to believe also in islamic values. So its like UMNO plus Islam a bit. PAS although traditionally supported by Kelantanese and Terengganu and Kedah people ( for the states are considered to be the bastion of traditional islamic schools ). But the most important aspect of PAS which one has to consider seriously is the fact that unlike PKR, PAS is an all malay party which has a strong rasicist group of Malays who view malay supremacy strongly.
PKR’s problem vis a vis DAP and PAS
PKR in general do not have much problems with DAP. The only problem which I could think of is that DAP is not happy that many middle class angry Chinese are now thinking of joining PKR more than they want to join DAP. This is because many urban highly educated Chinese view PKR as a real Malaysia for Malaysia party. Well many don’t realize that Anwar Ibrahim still has to wear that Malay cap when he needs to, as much as Lim Kit Siang has to wear the racist Chinese cap to win votes.
Membership is also a problem PKR vis a vis PAS. Many young urban highly educated Malays prefer to join PKR than PAS because they view PKR as being less malay racist , more modern, and they are very proud to be associated to the charismatic anwar Ibrahim. So PAS are now losing a lot of potential young people to PKR. Previously, Malays who came back from UK USA Australia who are inherently and rightly so , not happy with UMNO and the government, only have PAS to join. Now most of them like to join PKR because anwar is cool. Very little would join PAS because pas is hadi awang and he is not cool. unless of course they are hizbi people et al.
Even in PAS, leaders like Hadi Awang, Nik Aziz, and the old school ulamak doesn’t like the PKR and its leaders. Only out of mere convenience and power they are together. In the last election, in Kelantan PAS only gave Keadilan 2 parliament seats, and both are seats PAS don’t like. PKR was obviously not happy with it. But in PAS, reformers like nasharudin and husam are seen to be OK lah with PKR. In return, they are distrusted by the elders in PAS.
DAP’s problem vis a vis PKR and PAS
DAP is founded on the right views, but led by the wrong group of people. Well some of the new ones are ok, but when they are back on track on the ideological reformist democratic ideals, then what difference do they have with PKR. This I think is the conundrum that DAP is facing now. If they are seen to be less Chinese and more Malaysia Malaysia, they are no different to PKR. And Kit Siang and the leaders know that the only reason Chinese kampong support DAP is because DAP are the only jokers who stands up for Chinese rights, in the now more divided Malay- Non Malay demography of Malaysia.it is not in their interest that PKR goes stronger, as then more of the middle ground Chinese will join PKR instead of DAP. DAP’s leaders also have problems with the more nationalist Malays in PKR. In places like Selangor and perak, the malay pkr people are very nationalist Malays, only joining PKR not for its Malaysian Malaysia view, but because they all hate umno’s arrogance and the fact that they all just love anwar.
PAS problem vis a vis PKR and DAP
PAS I think will be the central of all the problem which Anwar will have in Pakatan Rakyat.
As a start if Anwar do bring in the 36 MP’s from Sabah and Sarawak, the government anwar is forming will not be a malay government but a rather mixed government. I do not think PAS will be too happy with this because at the end of the day, PAS depends on its supporters who view Malay rights as fundamental.
If we notice, PAS and PKR do not like to openly talk about malay issues. I think since anwar came into the picture, this is one of the thing that he told them to stop talking about. The other was obviously to tell pas to shut up on the islamic state thing.at the end winning against BN is priority. But PKR and PAS do realize that one point they have to talk about it again, at least behind closed doors. But again, when they are government, it will be less significant.
PAS biggest problem is DAP, for obvious reasons. PAS and DAP are of two extreme end of the right wing racial spectrum. PAS supports malay supremacy while DAP is used by Chinese not happy with malay supremacy rule. They will never reconcile on the political ideological grounds, bar the fact that they both want to be in power.
It is on this front, PAS would not agree with a DPM no2 from DAP, nor would PAS agree for a DAP finance Minister or a DAP defence minister.
In return, many in DAP find it ridiculous a joker like Ustaz Hadi who cant speak proper English and have extreme religious view can be DPM in anwar’s govt. and they may also not be happy to have these lots as the Minister of Finance or Defence Minister. Maybe they will joke it as a Taliban government.
Conclusion
I think what is more significant out of all this is the fact that we now realize, politically this country is more divided in an open way, more than we have ever seen it before.This is bad. I think we must all now concentrate to talk about a more non racial united malay. this should be the role of both BN and Pakatan Rakyat.
I believe that we must support the idea that Malaysia for all Malaysians is important, but the Malaysian people, despite the outcome of the elections, in my opinion still doesn’t believe in Malaysia for Malaysia.
In the Malay heartlands, and the city, Malays, who are in UMNO, PAS, and some in PKR, still strongly believe that this country must and may only remain to be ‘owned and ruled’ by Malays. Whatever that means. Its just that in PKR and Pas they talk about it less now because winning against BN is just too tempting. For obvious reasons too.
Chinese, who are in DAP are using DAP’s democratic views to demand more right for the Chinese. Not that many even understand what social democracy and all that nonsense actually means. Many actually believe that Chinese should have the right to be PM and al that. I don’t see this as a problem, but I don’t think Malays are ready for this leap of faith. We malays should realise that they are many unhappy chinese and indians out there, and we malays must play the role to reach out to the chinese and indian community. this country, we are all living as one.
The Indians are in worst state politically. MIC is a joke, PPP in shambles, so they all support PKR, who incidently also don’t have many senior Indian leaders. basicaly they just want somebody who can support their rights.still, this is racial politics.
At the end of the day, this country is still divided on racial ground. Malays voted against UMNO because they are meluat of UMNO, Chinese and Indians just voted for any joker who they view as people fighting for their rights. I am sure if MCA leave BN and is seen to be fighting for Chinese rights again( and no more a donkey of UMNO in BN) then more Chinese will be supporting MCA.
Yes, urban educated people did vote against corruption and all that. but urban people are so little, we sometimes talk as if we are 90 percent, we all blog, but we dont realise we are only 10 percent of malaysia.
Also to all opposition people out there, think about it, if one day UMNO and BN also turns into a good non corrupt party, do u think Malays will still believe in a Malaysian Malaysia and reject umno? I don’t think so.
This further re affirm my idea that as long as the people in this country think of their racial ego and rights first, we can never have a two party system. This is because on both sides, the parties have a lot of racist elements in it. So how to have two party when both sides also support racial sentiments?
At the moment PKR, DAP and Pas have a corrupted umno to blame for. But in 50 years time, umno may change or may not even exist. Does that mean that Malays suddenly become less rascist and ready to accept a barrack obama style lim guan eng as PM?
as much as i hope this can happen, i doubt it.
