BN’s pot calling the PKR kettle racist?! + Longer term thoughts on breaking Barisan

I’m sorry the photostream has temporarily stopped, as I fell sick on Friday night and have been recovering at home (a process facilitated almost entirely by politikus :) Planning to be back in the field tomorrow.

Freelunch, however, has been doing some truly excellent coverage at the scene, and I strongly recommend her site for some good insights :)

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I did however want to respond to the most recent truly ridiculous allegations BN has been making.

A bunch of their leaders basically accused PKR of being racist.

O_o ?!?!

Looks like desperation to me.

I’ve said it only a million times, that a polity divided along racial lines will invariably create a society that is divided along racial lines, and is in essence rascist (and please don’t give me any bullshit about the insignificant Gerakan being multiracial or anything like that, choke choke :). And what is Barisan if not a polity divided along racial lines?

Malaysia is fast running out of time to reject racial politics once and for all, and take the brave and entirely necessary step forward into non-ethnic politics.

At its core, there are no racial agendas in KeADILan, only national ones.

BN is well aware that its racial politics are fast going out of fashion. Why else would they be so petrified of giving any voice but theirs space in the media (I read B.Harian and Utusan today and almost fainted), or throw millions upon millions into a small Selangor town, or accuse what is easily the single most multi-racial party in Malaysia of racism?

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On that note, and since everyone’s all politically fired up these days, let’s think a little bit about breaking the Barisan hold.

We all know that only Umno is of any significance. The other component parties have so often and sooooo accurately called nothing but head-nodding office-boys, full of outmoded racist ideals, which wouldn’t even be as bad if they could at least defend them effectively.

This could be seen to leave people like PKR two choices.

1. Gun solely for Umno, knowing full well that no component party would be stupid enough to fight to reinstate Umno’s hegemony which we all know they (except their rolling-in-cash leaders) secretly hate (but then again, you never know with these hopeless flers…).

2. Attempt to hack away at the component parties first, knowing that Umno cannot really rule without their machais like MCA and MIC.

Personally, I’m as of yet undecided as to which of these may prove the more effective strategy, but I’m sure we will be fighting it out on both fronts for now.

I have little doubt that the grassroots of MCA, MIC, etc know that they would be better off under a PKR-led coalition, than a racist, corrupt and supremacist Umno.

Of course, the leaders of these machai component parties have faaaaaar too much vested interests ($$$$) to want to rock the boat, in effect selling out the future of our beloved country.

Have vision people, have vision! Make change happen, don’t let these decepticons trick you into believing you can’t change anything – YOU have the power! (but only if you register to votelah, go! quickly!)

Umno/Barisan knows their time is up, and that their days are numbered. Do you?