I have written previously about the ‘trip to Abilene’. After Perak, the Pakatan Rakyat governments of Selangor and Penang now seem ripe for such a trip.

To review, what is this ‘trip’? According to Jerry Harvey, one of my teachers, this happens when any group of people unintentionally goes on a journey which they all know that they will not like or to which they agree consciously.