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Opposition politics: Our brand is ignorance

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. - Thomas Sowell

COMMENT It's catchy this term "ignocracy" that Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah bandies about but one must remember that Ku Li represents albeit coyly a political party that specialises in catchy slogans in lieu of any long-term constructive inclusive nation-building.

Some would argue that the same can be said of Pakatan Rakyat and sometimes I would agree with this sentiment. Ku Li's broadside against the current regime and its "education policies" displays a profound misunderstanding of the social reality that has been coalescing around opposition politics for some time now.

It's not that people are unable to make wise decisions (whatever ‘wise' in this context means) because of their ‘racial worldview' but because ‘change' (again a nebulous emotive term used to rile up the rakyat) is hamstrung by the regime's gerrymandering, constitutionally-created Malays, money politics, a denial of access to the mainstream media, intimidation, a prejudiced judicial system, and the list goes on...


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