- DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke
COMMENT | You got to give it to the DAP. They commit to a role. Whether it is PAS, Bersatu, and now Umno/PKR, they commit to their role as enablers and sycophants to the Malay uber alles crowd.
Whatever filth they are asked to eat, they guzzle it up and put on a happy face, telling everyone that this is good for the bigger picture of the country, all the while, what they have been doing is being part of a system which slowly but surely makes it easier for the theocratic forces in this county to take over.
Of course, when these political love affairs which we are told are for the greater good of the country end, the DAP will trash talk their former Malay uber alles partners claiming that the DAP gave them everything but still this wasn’t enough, or that behind the scenes on important issues, they were played out by the ketuanan (supremacists) types.
This, of course, results in former partners hurling accusations at each other, while the respective bases dig in and politics remain the same.
Even Loke got his digs in at the old maverick saying - “At that time, we hoped that (former prime minister Dr) Mahathir (Mohamad), after reaching a very advanced age, could have changed, and not just join forces to topple (then PM) Najib Abdul Razak, but to bring change.”
At each turn, DAP partisans argued that...