If that is how UMNO is to be run, then at the same token, it is what to expect as well from BN.
A "Guided democracy" for the nation since they are running the show also.
‘Guided democracy’ is the Umno way, no leadership contest necessary – Ku Nan
Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor stressed that the top two posts in Umno – president and deputy president – need not be contested in the upcoming party elections as the party follows the principle of a “guided democracy”. He said this after some party leaders and groups insisted on a leadership contest, despite the supreme council’s recent decision that there will be no contest for the top two posts.
"What we want to follow is the ‘guided democracy’. As such, there won’t be any contest for the post of president and deputy president. After all, we just had our general elections,” Tengku Adnan told reporters at his office in the Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur building today. – June 18, 2013.
Does Ku Nan realise the implications of what he is suggesting?
Now UMNO seems to be borrowing old school methods from Sukarno, are they so out of ideas.? Retrieving and recycling useless junk from a known dictator.
Now UMNO seems to be borrowing old school methods from Sukarno, are they so out of ideas.? Retrieving and recycling useless junk from a known dictator.
Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Democracy allows eligible citizens to participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws. It encompasses social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination.
How do you guide a democracy? By forcibly telling (mental bullying) the citizens what to think, who to select...That will be a Shamocracy!
- Guided democracy, also called managed democracy, is a term for a democratic government with increased autocracy. Governments are legitimated by elections that are free and fair but emptied of substantive meaning in their ability to change the State's policies, motives, and goals.
In other words, elections are controlled so that the people can exercise all their rights without significantly effecting any changes in leadership or policies. While basic democratic principles may be applied, there can be major deviations towards authoritarianism.
Under a Guided or managed democracy, the electorate is prevented from having a significant impact on policies adopted by the State's continuous use of propaganda techniques.
The term was first imposed for Indonesia, but it is now also widely employed in Hungary ,and in Russia,and to an extent in Singapore, introduced into common practice by the Kremlin theorists, and even the United States of America according to Princeton professor Sheldon Wolin and his theories regarding inverted totalitarianism.
In other words, a guided democracy is just another veiled attempt at imposing dictatorial rule!!
Sukarno proposed a threefold blend of nasionalisme ('nationalism'), agama ('religion'), and komunisme ('communism') into a co-operative 'Nas-A-Kom' government, designed to appease the three main factions in Indonesian politics — the army, Islamic groups, and the communists. He proclaimed in February 1957, 'Guided Democracy', and proposed a cabinet representing all political parties of importance including the Communist Party of Indonesia.-