God bless this country, despite all the wrong doing of its leader!

If you want to change something, you need to find the root of the problem, and we know perfectly well what that is for Malaysia.

With the way they keep electing new Ministers (our government does practice cronyism and nepotism), they're ensuring that they've got a line of future leaders for Malaysia, each one educated to be as corrupted as the last. For our government to change, we need our leaders to change, and for that to happen, someone needs to break the cycle - we need real Malaysian leaders, true visionaries who really want to see this country move forward.

Our rakyat are a fairly brilliant lot and I firmly believe the problem of discrimination and racism lies mainly with our politicians who simply love to stir s**** up and will take every little opportunity to blow up a religious or racial snag. They are the poisons. The ones trying to sow the seeds of discord and mistrust. If we allow the seeds to grow and flower then we will have destroyed the unity we have thus far been able to achieve.

Call me idealistic if you like but it's either the fact that I'm living in urban surroundings or I'm seeing plenty enough love among Malaysians of all creed and race, and that can be our strength.

Bersih 2.0 was a significant mark in Malaysian history because there has never before been such a tremendous rally involving all races in Malaysia uniting for one common cause. It shows our capability to set aside differences. And the blogosphere is plenty active with Malaysian bloggers writing to promote change for a better Malaysia. And that change will come someday, though maybe not in the immediate future.

Malaysians are afraid to take the leap. Some of them don't know, some believe otherwise, some are cautious, some are pessimistic. You want us to judge the future based on our Malaysia now. Well I say there's definitely cause for some degree of optimism. I'm not the idealist I was anymore - I'm not going to say 'Malaysia will definitely be better in the future!' although this is an important view to keep in mind if we are to work towards reform. But to be honest, right now we have a populace growing in political awareness; we have a greater awareness of the kinds of corruption that pervade the system and how it functions; we have people willing to rally for the cause of electoral reform, which according to that recent survey puts support for reform at two-thirds of the populace.

Already we're in better shape than most of the Middle Eastern countries, ruled by tyrants. The transition from our corrupted establishment to a more efficient one doesn't have to be a 100- or even 50-year process. I believe in 10 years we can make some very big changes for the better, and in 20 we can be a first-world country. Look how far Penang has come with just a few simple steps. We're not talking about dismantling a decades-old, strong political dynasty marked for its brutality and totalitarianism; we're up against a crumbling, increasingly desperate party fragmented with infighting and no longer able to hide their corruption. The important thing, the thing we cannot foresee, is whether the people will experience this impetus needed to change.

So it may not have, but it most definitely, absolutely, can happen, and it doesn't have to take much either.

I think that while cheesy slogans like 1Malaysia and Malaysia Boleh do nothing to rectify the atrocious state our country has fallen to, I still think that there are people fighting the good fight. The fact that we have a pretty strong political awareness among youths, the fact that people are stepping in to promote change... I think these are good markers of hope.

The way I see it, it is only a matter of time before we see the collapse of the 'major pillar of our current sh!thole state' [being metaphorical so bear with me but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about]. Why else do you think the latest cheesy slogans came about in the first place? It is a sign of frantic on their part. A realization on their part that they will fall soon so they are doing everything they can to 'brainwash' people with slogans and campaigns to mask our problems.

We need a powerful central authority to keep the faith and trust of the people. To keep the motivation and the resilience of the people, to lead them to face the problems we have now. Right now, no matter which political party it is, we don't have such political backbone to keep our people's faith together. Once we are hit, we will just crumble and become like some African nation, forever in civil war and internal fight, because of the poor central authority that we have now.

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