A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R Murrow

COMMENT The only thing worse than the so-called Debate 2.0 is the chattering of the pundit class (which I'm a part of, I suppose) and the partisan nature of the press here in Malaysia. Echo chambers are alive with the sounds of victory but the only real losers are those who still cling on to the sad delusion that this is a fight about ‘issues'.

The spectacle of two Chinese leaders engaged in a proxy fight for their respective ‘Malay' partners may seem to some pundits like a step in the right direction as far as the national discourse is concerned but I for one, see the same game being played albeit in a more sophisticated manner.

Some of the post-debate commentary has been delightful. MCA chief Dr Chua Soi Lek relying on "facts" and "statistics", bleat the MCA propaganda organs, while DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng was on full "ceramah" mode. I mean what "facts" are we talking about here?