"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine (Common Sense)

COMMENT The irony being these weapons of "condemning", "instigating" and "promising" that Prime Minister Najib Razak seems to think are only used by the opposition, was in fact perfected by Umno.

I would argue because of the precarious nature of the opposition when it comes to their ideological cohesiveness and the controlled nature of the public discourse in this country, the opposition has not effectively used these weapons as Umno has, and have had to exercise some restraint to the numerous attacks by Umno using these same weapons...