Chua Soi Lek as president of MCA will be doing a great service to the Chinese community if he disbands the MCA party and donates the RM2 billion in assets of the party to a foundation that will help the Chinese community in the development of Chinese schools and scholarships for worthy and needy students.
MCA as it is will not survive the next general election and most likely will see its demise as a Chinese political party purportedly representing the Chinese community. The truth of the matter - which is obvious to every one except MCA leaders who are enjoying ministerial status and other perks offered to MCA appointees - is that MCA had long ago lost its mass appeal to the Chinese community.
MCA leaders must accept the current reality that it no longer can claim to speak on behalf of the Chinese community.The fact that it can even elect a tainted person involved in pornography to be their president speaks volumes as to how it has degenerated into a party that lacks morals but also displays a lack of charismatic leadership to lead the party out from its present crisis.
MCA has evolved in the same mould as Umno. Its members are in the party not for the community but more for their own personal interest. Therefore it's not surprising for Chua Soi Lek to appoint his own son to be a deputy minister in the cabinet when there are countless other more suitable candidates who could easily excel over his son.
This practice, of course, is not only confined to MCA. MIC has Vel Paari, Gerakan has Lim Keng Yaik's son, and in Sarawak there is Taib Mahmud’s son, Sulaiman Taib. The whole gamut of nepotism in political appointees is quite endemic in BN's circle.
As the saying goes, ‘you can fool some people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time’. Yes, BN and their coterie of members have been fooling the people for the best part of 50 years but the majority of the people have now realised the motives of these so-called leaders who have put their self-interest ahead of public interest.
No matter how MCA may want to repackage themselves in order to win over Chinese support, the sad undeniable truth is that it is too late for any remedy to be effective.
MCA is a lost cause and it would be doing the Chinese community a great favour if it dissolves itself and uses the funds it has accumulated to help the community in other ways.
MCA is no longer relevant to the Chinese political cause and its only possible way to survive is to continue to hang on to the coattails of Umno's Malay support in the constituencies it hopes to contest.
