Political Myopia

It’s the same thing this evening – engaging in research for my speechmaking tomorrow. I was able to put together facts for two topics yesterday, and tonight, I will collect data for another 2 more, maybe even 3 topics. I read the article "The War Against Imaginary Enemies" in the Sunday Star today, and agree wholeheartedly with what Zainah Anwar had written. These two paragraphs are especially illuminating: “If we do not find a way to be politically and culturally civil in our contested public engagement fast, then this deliberate strategy to construct every dispute into a threat to race and religion will eventually implode on us. March 8, 2008, was one safety valve where the emergent diverse social forces within our society used the ballot box to express their discontent. But it seems too many of our political leaders and their earnest supporters at the grassroots remain untutored to the changing mood of the rakyat” (p F30).

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That’s why many of us are waiting impatiently for the next General Elections.