YOURSAY ‘The real solution is to get rid of the Umno hegemony.’

 

Choose between Caesar and Rome, Umno told

 

Kim Quek: This Mahathir agent is spewing nonsense regarding PM Najib Razak. We know Najib has failed as PM, but not for the reasons that veteran editor A Kadir Jasin has in mind.

 

Najib has failed because he has conceded too much to what former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants, but Kadir wants Najib to quit because the latter has not conceded enough.

 

Kadir, you can ask your master to go to scoot off if he wants to replace Najib with a Mahathir puppet, for that would only hastened the destruction of our beloved Malaysia.

 

The real solution is to get rid of this Umno hegemony that has brought all these miseries to this country, and with no hope of a silver lining.

 

Wg321: There is a difference between Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib. It is easier for Mahathir through his cronies to get rid of Abdullah than Najib.

 

In the case of Abdullah, most of the Umno warlords do not support him. But Najib is no easy meat. Today he has the support of most of the warlords and also the warladies in Umno.

 

In order to get public support, Najib will throw money, BR1M after BR1M, especially to the rural Malay, his power base. Never mind the country goes bankrupt as long as he controls the gravy train.

 

Opening the secret files of Umno warlords and warladies may not work because Najib has a firm grip on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the judiciary, the Special Branch, the army, etc. Remember he has the Sedition Act too.

 

If he knows he is going to get a technical knockout or suffer an internal coup d’etat, he may adopt a scorched earth policy. There is a saying, “Enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

 

Mushiro: Kadir is 100 percent right about Najib but this is something known to 52 percent of the voters and they have responded accordingly in the last GE.

 

Can Kadir give three names in Umno as replacement for Najib? But there are no capable leaders in corrupted Umno.

 

All the capable names are already out of Umno. The best that Kadir can do for the Malays and Malaysia is to kick Umno out.

ZhuGeLiang: Dear Kadir, what makes you so sure that the next leader will be better than Najib? Who do you think is capable of reversing the tide of Umno's declining popularity?

 

Or is Umno's popularity really declining? If so, do you even bother to find out why? I am sure there are good leaders in Umno as there are in the opposition.

 

Umno has an advantage, it has the experience in running the country for more than 50 years and if what you said is true that Umno is losing popularity, then it can only be because it is pursuing the wrong policies.

 

Otherwise, why should the rakyat, who have embraced Umno for so long, have a ‘change of heart’ now? And what makes you so sure that unless there is a new PM, Umno will lose Putrajaya in the next election?

Hplooi: What the scribbler left unsaid is the meme that Najib is weak because he did not or cannot take "strong measures". Behind Kadir Jasin’s diatribe is a concerted move to return the country to draconian authoritarianism.

 

Unfortunately the extreme rightwing (of which this scribbler is chief apologist) cannot see beyond the tip of their ideological nose.

 

Their chief dogma is still the total hegemony of the Malays and whatever the means justify the ends (never mind, that the 'sandbanks' have moved and that an injustice however ameliorated over time is still an injustice).

 

Should his group succeed, another era of authoritarianism will result. However the morality and sustainability of their ideology (ethnic hegemony bordering on the fascistic) is so bankrupt that (in my humble opinion) it will prove to be even more devastating to the Peninsular Malays than any other existential challenges.

 

And one more term of such authoritarianism will pretty much destroy the nation as we know it.

 

Rupert16: Yes, we do indeed have a less-than-mediocre Umno leadership. Even an idiotic PM would know how to choose between traveling half the world to have a golf game with US President Barack Obama and tending to his people in times of need.

 

Also why is it that more than half of his ministers were on leave in the month of December (flooding season) when their vacation time could have been better planned?

 

Headhunter: Umno is now standing between the devil and the deep blue sea. Either way it is doomed. The so-called golf diplomacy is the last nail in BN’s coffin.

 

All the hundreds of millions of our money spent on Najib's PR were totally wasted. Even if Najib is booted out, who can save Umno? The other vice-presidents (VPs) and senior ministers who are eyeing the post are no better.

 

I say just let Najib die a slow death before the opposition takes over the government by letting him carry on his bungling ways. We can hasten it by demanding that he calls for a general election earlier rather than wait until BN term expires.

 

Onyourtoes: Kadir, you are wrong, the choice is not between Rome and Caesar. The choice is between one hopeless Caesar with another equally hopeless Caesar.

 

You are motivated by your personal ambition and agenda. What changes are you yearning for in Umno? Can you spell it out? What can the one who want to replace Najib do? The "presidential attitude" of Najib did not start with him. It started with your mentor, Mahathir.

 

After him, every PM appoints himself as the country's finance minister. It started with Mahathir, don't you ever forget that. It is not just Najib. It is Umno, saddled with false sense of entitlement, that can't change.

 

More than a false sense of entitlement, Umno is populated by incompetent and corrupt people who think they are beyond criticism. They are not fighting for bangsa, agama and negara. They are fighting for control of the gravy train.

 

All must be thrown out of the train at high speed. This is the only way to save this country.

 

Vijay47: Caesar or Rome? Oh dear, that's a tough one for Umno members. Since they view geography as an unnecessary subject, they have given up studying the world.

 

Many among them, to take things further for the sanctity of faith and to improve their putting, have also forsaken history. So they would be asking "Caesar dan Rome, sapa itu?"

 

No wonder Pliny the Elder and indeed the Younger who nobody has heard about, remarked "Intra autem Malaysiani, ignoramus banyakus".

 

Isana: Only second day of 2015, Mahathir's boys have already come out with gun blazing at Najib. Well, we'll just sit back and enjoy the fireworks. Zam (Zainuddin Maidin), your turn next.

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