DAP Sabah 8/8 GONE: “We’re Done With You” – Chinese Tsunami Has Begun and Pakatan Harapan Is Finished

 

For decades, the Malaysian Chinese voted with hope. They voted with loyalty. They voted believing that one day, their sacrifices would be remembered, not just exploited.

Last night in Sabah, that hope died.

Eight out of eight traditional DAP seats—Luyang, Tanjung Aru, Kemabong, Elopura, Tanjong Papat, Sri Tanjong, Likas, Kapayan—fell in a single evening. Not a single one survived. This was not a swing. This was a deliberate, crushing rejection. Eight out of eight. Wiped out. 100% annihilation. Zero survivors.

These were not marginal Malay-mixed seats. These were Chinese-majority urban strongholds—fortresses where the Chinese community had voted DAP for decades, long before Pakatan Harapan even existed. These were the seats your own people gave you when you were still the underdog, when you had nothing but promises. They trusted you with their future. And the moment you finally tasted power, you turned tone-deaf, arrogant, and ungrateful.

Losing one or two seats would have been a warning. Losing eight out of eight in your own heartland is not a defeat. It is a historic disgrace. It is the ultimate shame no amount of spin can wash away.

You do not lose every single Chinese-majority seat that your community handed you on a silver platter unless you have fundamentally betrayed their trust. After coming into federal power in 2022, the bare minimum expectation was that you would protect these seats—not let them be wiped out in one night. Instead, the silent Chinese tsunami has spoken louder than any protest ever could: Enough of your excuses. Enough of your bullshit.

This is the clearest message Chinese voters have ever sent since the Reformasi days: “We are done being your safety net.”

We are not angry in the way that makes headlines. We are the quiet kind of angry—the kind that does not shout in the streets, but simply stops showing up.

We are exhausted from false promises. We are exhausted from being told “be patient” while our children’s future is traded away for political survival. We are exhausted from watching the leaders we bankrolled trying to outdo PAS in piety while treating our votes as an automatic entitlement.

Rafizi Ramli himself raised the alarm months ago – internal PKR data showed Chinese support had collapsed by 32%, Indian support by a staggering 38% ahead of GE16.

Former Klang MP Charles Santiago highlighted how Anwar’s condescending reply to an Indian student on education quotas triggered massive anger in the community.

Political scientist Bridget Welsh revealed Indian turnout for PH in recent state elections had crashed: down 21% in Negeri Sembilan, 19% in Penang, 12% in Selangor – some of the worst numbers ever recorded.

The message from the Chinese community is no longer subtle. It is final: “We trusted you. We carried you. And you betrayed us.”

We remember 2018 and 2022. We turned out in near-unanimous numbers—97% of us in GE15—to stop authoritarianism and corruption. We braved the rain, queued for hours, and handed Pakatan Harapan power on a silver platter.

And what did we get in return?

• Vernacular school funding slashed by roughly 75% from the Najib era ( RM 100 Million to RM 25 Million )
• Chinese independent schools given a pathetic RM20 million to be shared among 63 institutions ( MARA & UITM – RM 2 Billion )
• UEC recognition dangled like a carrot for years, then quietly buried
• Chinese signboards in KL that stood proudly since Merdeka suddenly ordered removed
• University intake systems that still force our straight-A children to compete on four different, unequal tracks
• Meritocracy in universities? Still four different entry pathways that disadvantage non-Bumiputera students
• Only RM50 million for all non-Muslim houses of worship, while Jakim’s budget jumps from RM1 billion → RM2.6 billion
• Non-Malay equity ownership allowed to collapse from ~70% in the 1990s to ~25% today—yet we are still lectured about “pendatang” and “controlling the economy”

In 2022, 87% of Indians and 97% of Chinese voted to make Anwar Prime Minister. And how did he repay them? By trying to out-Islam PAS at every turn.

He’s busy playing international hero, donating hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money overseas as “humanitarian aid”, while Malaysians struggle with subsidy cuts and new taxes. Charity begins at home.

Remember the Malay proverb, Datuk Seri: “You chase what you can’t catch, while what you carry on your shoulders slips away.”

You are chasing the very people who hate you, while the ones who carried you for decades are walking away.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister who owes his position almost entirely to non-Malay turnout spends his energy trying to prove he is more Islamic than Hadi Awang. Hundreds of millions in “humanitarian aid” flow overseas while subsidies are cut at home. Jakim’s budget balloons to RM2.6 billion, yet all non-Muslim houses of worship combined are thrown a mere RM50 million.

We watched in silence as DAP—the party we regarded as our shield—transformed into something unrecognisable. From the fearless voice of conscience, it became a timid apologist, afraid to even whisper when Chinese schools were starved or when UEC was sidelined again.

We no longer believe the excuses. We no longer trust the promises of “next budget” or “after the Malay ground stabilises.” We have run out of patience, and more painfully, we have run out of hope.

The Chinese community has not swung to the right. We have not fallen in love with Perikatan Nasional. We have simply stopped believing that Pakatan Harapan deserves our votes any longer.

DAP’s collapse in Sabah is not just the fall of one party. It is the collapse of the central pillar that has held Pakatan Harapan together since 2018.

Remove DAP’s seats, turnout machine, funding, and urban strongholds, and what remains is a fragile PKR–Amanah skeleton that has never—on its own—been strong enough to govern Malaysia.

DAP has always been the main pillar of PH – the backbone, the money, the turnout machine, the urban stronghold.

PKR has never been strong enough on its own to form a government. The moment DAP collapses in GE16, PKR can forget about ever producing another Prime Minister.

PH’s real strength never came from Anwar or PKR – it came from DAP delivering seat after seat, bloc after bloc, election after election.

Without DAP, PH is just PKR and Amanah – a party with 31 parliamentary seats, more than 10 of them won by majorities under 2,000 votes. Even Anwar’s own Tambun was won by a razor-thin 3,736-vote majority.

We used to say: if just 8% of PH’s hardcore loyalists stay home, Tambun falls.

When DAP falls, PH falls with it. And last night, the Chinese community made it clear: we are prepared to let it fall.

And let no one pretend this is new or impossible.

History has already proven what the Chinese community can do when it is truly fed up:

• In 1969, they helped bury the Alliance in Penang and Perak.
• In 2008, they delivered the political tsunami that ended BN’s two-thirds majority forever.
• In 2018, they delivered the knockout blow that brought down the “unbeatable” Najib, UMNO, BN, and their lapdog MCA in one night—MCA was left with just ONE seat.

If the Chinese community could destroy the mighty Barisan Nasional empire and reduce MCA to a laughing stock, do not think for one second they cannot—and will not—do the exact same thing to Anwar Ibrahim, Pakatan Harapan, and DAP.

They have done it before. They just did it again in Sabah. And they are perfectly capable of finishing the job in GE16.

We never rioted. We never burned tyres. We never blocked the streets. We just quietly walked away.

Sabah last night was only the beginning. The peninsula will follow – silently, coldly, and decisively.

We do not need to vote for the green wave to punish you. We only need to stay home.

You gambled that our fear of PAS would always be greater than our disappointment in you. You lost that gamble the moment we stopped hoping.

The sofa is comfortable. The polling station is optional.

And hope, once extinguished, does not reignite with a TikTok video or a last-minute budget crumb.

Sabah has spoken. Don’t say you weren’t warned – loudly, clearly, and in numbers you can no longer pretend not to see.

Sabah was not an outlier. It was the preview.

We brought down Najib and BN. We can—and will—bring down Anwar and PH the same way. We are done. - thecoverage.my