Wrote this about 2 weeks back, and just uploading it now. Firstly, cos I would like the blog to reflect thinking other than the current pre-occupation with outside-in thinking, and secondly, cos this issue has been allowed to drag on for far too long. To the detriment of everyone, and not least the rakyat.
Here goes:
Views on politics
- DSAI has gone overboard in his quest to gain power – smearing the reputation of the DPM in reaction to the nonsensical allegations of SBA, an irrelevant pawn unfortunately dragged into a high-stakes political situation he could not have imagined emerging. But again by upping-the-ante, the response DSAI has chosen, has also shown how poorly the country is managed when the situation is allowed to drift into a crisis which erodes confidence in the main democratic institutions of the country.
- How best to emerge? Again, politics is about doing the impossible – and the impossible is getting the protagonists to sit down and stay cool. Difficult when everyone has grand designs, - AAB, DSAI, DSNR, TDM, MY, LGE, LKS – and none actually involves the betterment of the living standards of the rakyat.
- It is a situation ripe for the leadership of PAS to display the professionalism required to maintain order and stability. Numerous examples from the age of fitan during the leadership change of Uthman to Ali, and Ali to Muawiyah are testaments to how the transformation of a deeply polarized society to the stability and the progress of a budding empire.
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