“Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.”

- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

COMMENT | The upcoming Johor election will determine how the base is feeling about the DAP. All politics is local, of course, but rational Malaysians dissatisfied with how DAP has managed non-Malay issues in the era of Madani are going to see if their views are validated or rejected in this upcoming election.

Parti Bersama Malaysia, which is targeting five DAP seats, is going to discover if they have a chance of being part of the political process in this country or will they be consigned to the bin, merely a convenient online distraction.

Anecdotally speaking, I know many non-Muslims who are fearful of the Green Wave and would rather just vote for the lesser of two evils, and they believe DAP is still the best chance they have to ensure that their interests are taken care of.

They would rather the non-Muslims not...