"Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good." - Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)

COMMENT In my last piece , I commented on the rather predictable backlash that arose after Prime Minister Najib Razak's clarion call to the Malay polity of impending colonisation by a Pakatan Rakyat government which was in reality a proxy for the dreaded ‘pendatang' DAP.

In all my pieces, I have been pretty adamant on the futility of playing the race game and indeed in my conversations with Human Rights Party leader P Uthayakumar, I pushed the same line of argument although like any good discussion, there was opposing points of view which somehow managed to find a way to an amicable middle ground.

(Readers may be interested in fact that there are interviews with P Uthayakumar and Waythamoorthy in the works, but the sedition trial (and numerous social work obligations) of the former and the hectic nationwide fact-finding mission of the latter, will mean that these comprehensive interviews are a slow process).

One of the problems Pakatan faces in the reality which is the Umno-created Malaysia, is that the race game is the only game in town and that Pakatan, as I have pointed out in numerous pieces, is at a disadvantage because although they hum the multiracial tune, they are in reality bound by the same racial political chains that bind any mainstream political party that wishes to claim the throne in Putrajaya...