POLi + TICS = MANY TACTICS

by Cikgu Pencen

The economic recession that is occurring in our country nowadays will be getting worse with the political pandemonium. The effects of this such as the increasing of unemployment rate seems does not bring any influence to the political scenario of Malaysia.

Supposedly, the current economic turmoil should create panic among politicians, that they should do something about it, to ensure the economy of this country to become better, so that their political influence will become stronger.

The political disorder happens when politicians are no longer fighting for the masses. They just try to be in charge, to be in domination of power so that they can blow their own horn. They can never care if their goals will make the public suffer and becoming intolerance of each other.

The trusts that were given to these politicians are used for rhetorical reasons, to condemn their political enemy. Finally, the situation becomes worse and inviting segregation into the community.

This political pandemonium should be handled by leaders with power. Those leaders were given the mandate in the last general election to govern and determine the form of administration they want to have to manage the state and federal government.

Our leaders had done enough to give different ideas and thoughts to ensure the peace and stability of this country. The approach of governing our country that once used by the previous leaders was taken as the benchmark to bring Malaysia, to what it is today.

However, there are still opportunists, either from the right wing party or the opposition, who try to gain something, for their advantage, in this chaotic moment. This kind of leader is always with the people, trying to gain their influence, by pretending to be caring, so that public will be on his side.

This kind of opportunist leader is not fit in to be given a mandate. We want a diplomatic and transparent leader. It is because, our country is built on the ground of collaboration and group effort, not through demonstrations or street riots.

Politics is married to power. They are inseparable. Power can be said as the lubricants of political engine. Hence, many of the politicians know that whatever power they possessed, it should me used wisely.

One of the strategy is to rule out the enemy, to take advantage of their weaknesses or portraying their weak sides to the public. These actions, if going out of control, can give a bad name to politics and its stability in a country. It can become worse if there are leaders that are manipulating the emotions or sentiments of the public to gain influence.

The people should be able to be the judge and have their own yardstick before they jump into the bandwagon, believing whatever claims that are made, by this type of leaders.

Any political leaders that are playing with sentiment and emotion of their supporters should be out of job in this country. Their words have created tension among the people, and should not happen in this country in a first place. Most of their supporters time are wasted for demonstrations after demonstrations.

The masses are actually matured enough with these political games. Besides protest rally, the know what is the best thing to do, in facing the political issues.

The people or rakyat should realize, with this economic downbeat, the times that they have, is to be put into a wise and better use, before the heat of economic recession, burning them like a blazing fire of misery…