MCA and Gerakan have stepped up on its verbal abuse of Pakatan Rakyat, especially against Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and DAP. Most recently, MCA deputy president Liow Tiong Lai has called DAP a Satay party. ‘Satay’ is Malaysia’s most famous BBQ meat, which also enjoys international fame.
Meanwhile, Gerakan’s relentless attack of the Pakatan government in Penang continues unabated. Gerakan goes on to say that DAP is using racial issues to win support from the Chinese. Failing to vote MCA and Gerakan, this will be detrimental to the future of the Chinese in Malaysia.
The Sarawak election is over. There is no point to cry over sour milk. There is also no point to continue threatening the Chinese over such frivolous issues. The Chinese do not owe MCA or Gerakan an existence. The Chinese also have no wish to start a quarrel over unimportant racial issues, fanned mostly by the BN.
Even their own wives and children may vote Pakatan, not BN
MCA and Gerakan have come to a crossroad. Since the 12th GE, their popularity is on a steep downslide, but little has been done to address the situation. The mudslinging against Anwar and DAP shows their desperation and frustration. There is even talk that, their own wives and kids have not decided who to vote for.
If the 13th GE is around the corner, then their time is almost up. MCA backed itself into a corner by announcing that it will not vie for Cabinet posts should it fail to get the support of the Chinese. At the way things are going, Chua Soi Lek and team will be looking for new jobs soon.
Instead of addressing the situation at its roots, MCA and Gerakan are like two trigger-happy cowboys, with 2 guns blazing at Pakatan and DAP whom they see as their enemy. Already manning an empty fort, their futile efforts to protest only serves to cement the fact that they have ceased to become relevant. Just like SUPP their demise is unavoidable.
When the general election is over, they will be the losers - just like George Chan, pledging changes a little too late and putting the blame on federal policies for his failures.
Woo, not force or threaten or cheat
MCA and Gerakan should know very well where the real problem lies. Taking pot shots at DAP and sex-slandering Anwar is not going to make the Chinese electorate any more sympathetic to their cause. They had 3 years to right the wrongs since the last GE, but they just squandered the time away.
Knowing full well the sentiment of the voters since their thrashing in the last GE, we would have expected BN to be more attentive to our needs. We would expect dismantling of inhibitive policies to win back the hearts of the electorate. We would expect BN to go all out to woo us back, and make us feel comfortable and safe with BN policies.
But NO, one gets the feeling that BN is intentionally punishing the electorate for their poor support. They would rather use fear and arm-bending tactics to steer us back to BN.
MCA and Gerakan have failed to see that past policies stifling equal economic participation, coupled with racial and religious freedom, were the basis for their historic defeat at the hands of the Pakatan. BN is seen as being helpless to resolve these issues, and instead intentionally allows them to fester.
There is no advice for both these parties. They should have faded away, but instead they tried to cling on to Cabinet positions, with some coming through the backdoor on the grounds that the Chinese needed representation. Rejected by the people and voted out by the electorate, MCA and Gerakan still refused to accept their fate, and instead sees fit to continue in their old-style politics.
The last thing the Chinese want
Panicky now that Pakatan is getting all the attention, they fail to realize that the Chinese did not reject MCA or Gerakan. They rejected BN and Umno.
The Chinese are really not bothered about representation, as they have always felt that MCA and Gerakan have no backbone to stand up to UMNO. The only thing that the MCA has said so far that was correct was Chua Soi Lek telling PAS to drop its Radical Islamic Agenda if it wants to join UMNO.
So, if MCA and Gerakan are still hell-bent on finding fault with DAP and Pakatan it should realise that doing so will only anger the Chinese even more. In the first place, the Chinese didn’t put them there to quarrel with the Opposition.
The Chinese put them there to stand up for the Chinese and to ensure that the Chinese are well represented as 1st Class citizens. The last thing the Chinese voted them in was for them to get into the Cabinet for their own self-glorification and benefit. Is that so difficult to understand?
So, don’t feel sore and sow your anger at Pakatan. Be fair and direct your struggles to the heart of the problem. Try and make yourself useful without all that verbal diarrhoea. At the end of the day, it is the words of the Voters that will prevail, not yours or UMNO's.
- Malaysia Chronicle
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