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Friday, November 24, 2017

After town hall meet with youth, Dr M feels let down



Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad has admitted disappointment with the youth who only focused on the misdeeds of the BN government during a town hall session he attended with DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang on Tuesday.
Despite describing it as a 'most interesting session' with 200 Malaysians, the former premier, however, noted how the Harapan coalition was prejudged guilty before the fact, based on the reaction of the crowd.
"They asked very intelligent questions but were a little disappointing because they were mainly about past alleged misdeeds of the BN governments.
"There was hardly any reference to the present and the future. The main focus was on Ops Lalang," he said in a blog posting today.


On the issue of corruption, he noted that the crowd seemed to believe that any new government would "do all the things that (Prime Minister) Najib (Abdul Razak) has done and is doing, as long as the systems remain the same," Mahathir stated.
The former Umno veteran then stated that there also seems to be a belief that if the system is corrected, everything else will then be fixed.
"The implication seems to be that voting in the election would not resolve the problems facing the country," he said.
"This being so, voting would be an exercise in futility.
"In other words, let the present government continue, let Najib be the prime minister," he continued.
Mahathir cautioned that such a viewpoint reflects the aphorism "better the devil you know than the angel you don’t".
"Against this, the opposition coalition’s efforts will come to nought especially with many young Malaysians. The coalition is prejudged as guilty before the fact," he lamented.
The old see changes from past to present
He, however, noted that the older generation could see a difference between the old and the new.
"They see that in the past no one categorised Malaysia as among the ten most corrupt countries in the world as it is now.
"No one called Malaysia a kleptocracy. No one was worried about national debt reaching one trillion ringgit," 


The older generation also acknowledged the past glory days when Malaysia was among the tigers of Asia and the most developed of the developing countries, and so they "yearn for what, by comparison, were the good years of the past," he said.
"For the young, the years of the past were nothing to be proud about. Of course, the country must develop. Of course, life would be good. These were normal. Every country must be so," he said.
"And (they think) there is no guarantee a new prime minister with a new government will not steal money, corrupt the people and abuse his power," he added.
According to him, the young think that corruption, detention without trial, censorship and restrictions on press freedom would all remain if a new government is in place.
"This difference in the perceptions of old and young needs to be recognised and appreciated if the aspiring challengers against Najib wish to mobilise youths to help in the attempt to overthrow Najib and his kleptocratic government," he added.
"The future belongs to these young Malaysians. Their refusal to help change the government will be very detrimental to them," he said.- Mkini

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