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Are we ready to take plunge into the unknown in 2017?

YOURSAY | ‘As we suffer together, we will start to realise we are all Malaysians.’

Game changers for 2017

Doc: Writer Koon Yew Yin says the three biggest losers of Umno’s power monopoly are:

1. Felda settlers and their families.

2. The younger generation of Malay Malaysians below 25-30 years.

3. The native voters in Sabah and Sarawak.

I am confident that the above three groups will overwhelmingly vote for Umno and BN will return to power next year with Najib Abdul Razak strengthening his grip after GE14.

My reasoning:

1) Felda settlers may be angry with Najib and his bungling of Felda Global Ventures (FGV) share prices, but Najib is an expert in allegedly hoodwinking the gullible Felda settlers.

Come election time, Najib will tell the Felda settlers that the price of the FGV shares and palm oil prices are manipulated by the Chinese and Jews because they are "threatened" by the Malays.

He will then barefacedly promise to settle all their problems and return Felda's heydays to them in six months. On top of that, he will give them RM1,000 per family. This is good enough to get the settlers voting Najib and BN. It worked before and it will work again.

2) As for the younger generation of Malays, Najib will give them his dose of racial rhetoric speeches just before the elections.

The Chinese are robbing the country, only giving jobs to their kind and the global economy is being manipulated by the Jews because they hate Muslims, hence the Malays need to vote for Umno because only Umno can protect Malay rights. It worked before and will work again.

3) As for the Sabahans and Sarawakians, well, they love to suffer under BN rule and will not let go of the little luxury which they currently enjoy. Hence the East Malaysians will vote BN.

Lone_star: Has the tipping point been reached? Will Malaysians take the plunge into the unknown? 2017 will be a watershed,

Malaysians must be brave - better the unknown than the allegedly plundering Malaysian Official 1 (MO1).

Fair Play: Perhaps for the first time, there is an even chance that finally Umno would be dethroned in GE14. While the bulk of the Malay votes comes from the Malay heartland, allegedly screwing the Felda settlers might be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Just a Malaysian: I still believe that we will go through a very difficult economic crisis. It will be painful and difficult, especially for the poor and unskilled.

We may suffer a currency crisis like Venezuela or Brazil. We will be forced to face the fact that our government had allegedly squandered most of our wealth and chased away most of our talents and ended up with a heavily-indebted nation with no economic leverage.

Our country will have the tallest buildings and best rail systems but does not have the economic strategy to compete. To continue to be competitive, we will import more and more foreign labour to run our shops and factories.

Our children will have no good jobs. Then we may all wake up to the folly of racial and religious dominance.

As we suffer together we will start to realise, we are all Malaysians in the same situation. Then maybe there is hope for another Tunku Abdul Rahman to step in.

TimesAchanging: I feel the writer has given a mainly non-Malay perspective. Corruption at the highest levels has not bothered the Malay masses enough.

As for race and religion – ‘ketuanan’ still rules the day. I think the opposition has absolutely to be up-front about the composition of its government, who the PM is and who will be in its cabinet. It also has to make known in no uncertain terms its policies relating to bumiputera rights.

As for the the Sabahans and Sarawakians, who knows? They are still strongly pro-BN based on the most recent elections. So all in all, it's still an uphill task.

Report: Umno's absence key to harmony, says S'wak DCM

Vijay47: On a social level, Sarawak is ‘a wonderful experience’ and I have lived there long enough to discover this first hand.

Politically however, Kuching seems to be learning well from Umno; as expected, the Dayaks, the majority in Sarawak, are betrayed by their own leaders, a situation Peninsular Malaysians are familiar with - I for one do not trust Adenan Satem for all his posturing.

On the rosier side, one of the delightful practices in the state is that during all major festivals, expect to receive a horde of friends dropping by without even needing to be invited, leaving the host with an ‘enough food or too much?’ anxiety.

But Paradise is slowly being infiltrated by Satans, not surprisingly from ‘Malaya’. Many of the government servants and teachers posted there are allegedly masters of racist and religious extremism, who believe they have to lead the innocents of Sarawak to the right path.

In the meantime, let us enjoy the wonderful aspects of the Land of the Hornbills. While they last.

SusahKes: Let's see if I understand Deputy Chief Minister James Masing's logic. He doesn't want the bad seed of Umno's social reengineering to find its way into Sarawak, but at the same time, he has no problems being in the same cabinet with Umno.

Does that sound like a guy who wants to have his cake and eat it, too?

Going by Masing's logic, then, I can ban alcohol from my house, but it's also okay if I hang out with Al Capone and his moonshine team. Ah yes, only BN politicians have such logic.

By the way, Masing, please stop the Clint Eastwood posturing; Umno knows what to do to you and Sarawak in the event you don't deliver the votes to them. Just ask MCA and Gerakan. For now, the calm is only above the surface.

KnockKnock: I love the quotation: Umno's absence is key to harmony. Sarawak is indeed fortunate without Umno.

How I wish Umno would take a break and let Pakatan Harapan run this country. Only then will we know if Sarawak's assumption above is true or false.

RCZ: And the absence of Umno in Peninsular Malaysia would also be the key to its harmony. Unfortunately, Sarawak and Sabah make deals with Umno (who they claim to dislike), which keeps Umno in power and directly destroys harmony in Peninsular Malaysia. Are we to be thankful to Sarawak for directly doing this to the Peninsular Malaysians?

Sarawak is part of this country. But Sarawak is only concerned with themselves and not the country as a whole. They may as well not belong.

But Masing, don't think the corrupt tentacles of Umno have not reached Sarawak. It has and unless you get rid of Umno completely, you will always be in danger and their mode of alleged corruption and extremism and racism always destroys.

Bersatu Malaysia: Indeed, Malaya was like that 50 years ago. I really miss those good old days where every race lived side by side. The present Umno politicians have ruined this once happy state.


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