Mahathir, under which the cronyism, corruption and nepotism flourished under his 22-year iron-fist administration and are still very much alive and kicking today is once again playing his infamous racial card again for obvious reason. His UMNO Baru (current UMNO party) is dying a natural death since Mar 2008 General Election. For the first time, the ethnic-Malay, Chinese and Indians have all voted in favor of opposition parties in the last general election in retaliation to the worsening corruption practiced by UMNO and their component parties. PM Najib and his lame attempts at governing might be one of the reasons voters voted out the arrogant BN coalition but he was the direct production of Mahathir’s assembly-line in churning out low quality leaders.
Mahathir does not have much time to waste and his primary focus now is to ensure there may be a continuation of the Mahathir dynasty after the Razak dynasty completes the cycle.
But that can only happen if the voters think UMNO has changed for the betterment of the people instead of their own cronies.
The coming UMNO assembly also may witness the return of former finance minister Daim Zainuddin besides Mahathir as special advisors who would influence the country’s policies. It would be fun if Mukhriz can be convinced to wave the keris (dagger) in imitation to the previous actors,Najib and Hishammuddin Hussein and the frogman Ibrahim Ali. If he does ,wonder what will his competitor Khairi, say to that!.
The racial card has being used with some success in the past and basically many UMNO leaders today has played that game in one way or another.
But that was before the explosion of internet via social media or blogging . It cannot be denied that the majority of Malay voters who voted against UMNO in the general election were the educated youngsters who read the “truth” from the net.
Mahathir is playing a losing racial game if he thinks he can rally this important group of Malay youngsters to back UMNO as the ultimate party in ruling the government forever.
Nevertheless it is to be believed what some fortune-tellers are saying about Mahathir to live till the ripe age of 88-years-old, Mukhriz Mahathir has to step up and spring board to the premiership come rain or shine else without his grand old daddy the junior may just ended up as another UMNO ordinary member.
With police force, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Election Commission, Judiciary and to some extent even the Royalty deeply entrenched in the “UMNO Culture”, chances are higher for Mahathir dynasty to become a reality than to have opposition coalition (PR) taking over the federal government.
The combination of the Three Musketeers Najib-Mahathir-Daim would blow all aspects of democracy to pieces.
