Please read my comments at the end.
I told You So!! – Why Arrogant Mandela And R@cist UMNO Are Responsible For Chinese Protest In Sungai Bakap Polls
July 8th, 2024 by financetwitter
Many PH hardcore supporters do not like it when Mandela is being criticized. They had no idea the danger of blindly supporting a man who walks the corridors of power. All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is not to say Mandela had stolen money, but power has corrupted this man to the extent that he becomes arrogant.
Yes, the man who had been screaming “Reformasi” (reforms) for 20 years now has little appetite for reforms after he becomes the most powerful man in the country. Terrified of losing power, he now argues that we should not rush for reforms. Reforms take time, and people must be ready to accept reforms, he argues, thinking that people are stupid and could be taken for a ride.
Even if the spineless Mandela was right that reforms take time, which is not because the country is in dire straits after more than 60 years of corruption and mismanagement by the previous Barisan Nasional government, which he was part of for 16 years (1982-1998), he can’t explain why his government continues to discriminate, bully and ignore Chinese and Indian, the minorities who put him in power.
On June 29, about a week before the Sungai Bakap polling day (July 6), we published an article screaming – Sungai Bakap Polls – PKR Set To Lose Again As Chinese Voters Find Little Inspiration To Vote For Mandela – and voila, not only Mandela's party lost, it had lost with a bigger majority (4,267 votes) than during the 2023 Penang state election (1,563 votes).
To say Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) or People’s Justice Party was humiliated is an understatement. It has been trashed, crushed and abandoned by extremely angry Chinese voters, so much so that a few thousands Chinese attending a banquet hundreds of kilometres away in Selayang, Selangor, burst into celebration as if Malaysia had won the FIFA World Cup when Sungai Bakap poll results were announced.
Exactly how could PKR, supposedly the backbone of PH coalition, lose nearly 3 times more majority-vote in less than a year? Even opposition Perikatan Nasional was surprised by its stunning victory. It was absolutely disastrous for Mandela's party to lose by 4,267-majority votes – more than 10% of the total registered electorate of 39,279 voters.
Worse, Sungai Bakap is also the “birthplace” of Mandela. Not only Mandela has egg on his face, thanks to fellow ethnic Malays who rejected him, he was also given a slap in the face by both Chinese and Indian communities who boycotted him. Make no mistake – Perikatan Nasional did not win because the voters loved it, but because the voters despised Pakatan Harapan more.
At the Saturday’s polls, a whopping 70% of the 22,815 Malay voters cast their ballots for Perikatan Nasional, whilst only 47% Chinese and 58% Indian voters care to vote. PKR was already handicapped with the constituency’s electorate landscape – 59.36% Malays, 22.54% Chinese and 17.39% Indian. With only less than half of Chinese votes in the bag, it was already “game over” for PKR. STOP
As analysed, Mandela knew he would lose, but did not expect to suffer such a huge defeat. That was why he offered a hilarious excuse not to campaign for his own party.
From the beginning, bread-and-butter issues like diesel subsidies, electricity and water rates and the soaring cost of living were the three hot potatoes among the voters in Sungai Bakap, a semi-rural constituency on mainland Penang.
Diesel Subsidies Cut - Price Increase After Floated
Perikatan Nasional did not need to try very hard to convince voters who to vote – silly Mandela had been bragging that the reforms to diesel subsidies could save the government RM4 billion every year. Yet, the government could only reduce “3 sen” in egg prices – costing the government merely RM100 million – as part of its promise to return to the people the RM4 billion savings from the diesel subsidy cuts.
The diesel subsidies cut saw the floated retail prices shoot to RM3.35 per litre, an increase of about 55% from RM2.15. Even though the government said it will dish out monthly cash of RM200 to eligible owners of diesel vehicles, the handouts are insufficient for residents like Malay fishmonger, grocery store owner, motorcycle repair shop and tonnes of Chinese businesses.
Besides the unpopular diesel subsidies cut, people were also disgusted with the gomen's decision to raise SST (sales and service tax) on electricity from 6% to 8%, as well as the Penang state government’s hiking of water tariff by up to 204%. But the arrogant Mandela gomen was not done insulting the people even after adding fuel to the fire of escalating cost of living.
Rafizi Ramli - General Election 2022 Campaign
PKR’s "most brilliant" strategist and tactician – Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli – happily and arrogantly warned that the government has “another surprise for everyone”. He was referring to the removal of RON95 petrol subsidies, which will be announced in the same manner as diesel. He probably thought he was funny and smart, and everyone would applaud at another subsidies cut.
Sure, go ahead and abolish the petrol subsidies tomorrow and see the spectacular fireworks of PKR destruction. If even the best brains in the United States and Western nations could not manage the cost of living and tame their respective country’s inflation, who is Rafizi to claim he has the formula to do so? Which part of “timing is not right for subsidies cut” that both Mandela and Rafizi don’t understand?
Yes, not only the Chinese community was angry, pro-Mandela Malays had also decided to either skip voting or swing their votes for the opposition – just to teach the out-of-touch Mandela gomen a lesson. Fed up with skyrocketing prices, a survey showed that 7 out of 20 residents of Sungai Bakap who had previously voted for Pakatan Harapan have decided not to vote at all this time.
Chinese Voters - Election
After PKR was demolished beyond recognition in the Sungai Bakap by-election, Rafizi conveniently blames the Chinese low turnout for his party’s defeat. The PKR deputy-president who was responsible for blindly pushing for subsidy cuts and tax hikes has forgotten that he was the same data genius who said only 48% Malays would support rival Perikatan Nasional in Sungai Bakap.
While Mandela's daughter – the “Reformation Princess” who stunningly lost her family traditional stronghold in Permatang Pauh in the Nov 2022 General Election quickly took full responsibility for PKR’s defeat, she may want to advise her daddy to prioritize the Chinese and Indian community instead of Malays, let alone Palestinians or Hamas.
Instead of fixing domestic issues like sagging economy, rising costs of living, un-affordable housing and depreciating local currency, Hamas-obsessed Mandela easily gave away RM1xx million to the Palestinians. Vernacular schools, like a beggar, meanwhile, received only a few hundreds of thousands here and there for each of the Chinese and Tamil schools.
To charm and hoodwink Malays that he is the world’s best Muslim hero, Mandela even dragged schools nationwide into the Middle East conflict, introducing a so-called “Palestine Solidarity Week” program under the pretext of teaching students about humanitarian values. The reckless move saw innocent students carrying toy guns, while wrapping Palestinian keffiyeh scarf around their heads like militants.
As if that was not bad enough, the Mandela gomen created a new problem in education, one of the two most important things in the Chinese culture after economy. The Education Minister, arguably Mandela's most useless minister, issued a new directive to secondary schools in Penang to have at least one class teach two subjects – science and mathematics – in Malay.
The controversy in Penang – Malaysia’s “Silicon Valley” where English is the main language for business and technology – was to woo Malay voters, who mostly back the Malay-Muslim-based opposition alliance Perikatan Nasional. But it was a dumb move as it contradicts with Mandela, who himself flip-flops about the importance of Malay and English languages and whined about a shortage of 30,000 engineers.
Malaysia Chinese Vernacular School Students
Even during the previous government of Muhyiddin, parents wishing for science and mathematics to be taught in English were allowed to do so without any conditions requiring at least one class to be taught in Malay.
However now, Mandela is much worse and the Chinese could see this. The Mandela chameleon tries to be more Malay and Muslim than the opposition. (OSTB : But still the Malays DO NOT VOTE for him).
Spending more time in the internal affairs of Palestinian and Hamas than his own backyard is one thing. Keeping quiet while Chinese-owned businesses were being terrorized by the UMNO r@cist and g@ngsters like Youth leader is another thing altogether. So, where was Rafizi, Mandela, Nurul or other PKR leaders when the Chinese were being bullied?
Hilariously, despite wasting tens of billions to appease the Malay-Muslims, including giving RM2 billion to the Isl@mic Development Dept, who was involved in “meat scandal” and promoting “radical ideologies”, and allocated RM10 billion annually for a salary hike to civil servants, the Malay voters took the money but showed Mandela the “middle finger”.
UMNO Losing Support
Instead of blaming the Penang Chinese voters for refusing to vote, PKR leadership should have the balls to blame governing partner UMNO. Where have all the 8,000 UMNO voters who had voted for the party in the 2018 General Election disappeared? The Malay nationalist party should take responsibility for failing to deliver the Malay votes to PKR-Pakatan Harapan.
As far as Chinese electorate is concerned, the predominantly pro-Perikatan Nasional Malay voter base in Sungai Bakap was already a lost cause. Even if 100% of the Chinese voters turns up in full force to vote for PKR, they can’t re-capture the seat. It would be a waste of time, not to mention the Chinese voters find more reasons to punish Mandela than to vote for him, thus resulting in lower turnout.
Crucially, unlike Kuala Kubu Baharu where Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP) was the incumbent, the Chinese can afford to punish Mandela in Sungai Bakap because there is nothing to lose even if Pakatan Harapan candidate fails to win. It will not change the government. But the people can celebrate when Mandela's party loses, which they did. So, why bother to vote at all?
Mandela - 1 Term Only
More importantly, if the Chinese had voted for PKR, it would embolden the arrogant and out-of-touch Mandela to continue to ignore the minorities, as well as to cut more subsidies, increase more taxes and interfere in the interests of the Chinese community. If Mandela still has no idea that the Chinese are his major vote bank, he deserves to be kicked out and PKR deserves to be wiped out in the next election.
Get real, the minorities, especially ethnic Chinese, are not stupid, let alone blind. The mantra – “If you don’t vote for PKR-Pakatan Harapan, the extremist PAS Islamist party will rule the country” – can only work for so long. Do you really think the Chinese will bend over and be held for ransom for 5 years, giving a blank cheque to a chameleon who has so far done nothing for the community?
For the last 60 years, it has always been greedy Malay politicians fighting each other for power. Chinese can’t be the prime minister, can they? So, it doesn’t really matter which Malay politician becomes the prime minister. They are all the same.
And if the majority of Malays wish to destroy their own land with a Taliban government, let them be. They deserve the government they voted for.
My Comments :
This is now the final outcome of a very risky political venture that began in 1998 and is now backfiring in the face of the DAP.
In 1998 when Dr Mahathir kicked out chameleon from UMNO the DAP (which was until the day before his biggest enemy) suddenly decided to make a Mandela out of a chameleon.
Until a few days before he was kicked outof gomen, the late Mr Karpal of the DAP went to town to remind everyone about the serious allegations of sexual wrongdoing and sodomy that were going around the country at that time.
But the moment he was kicked out Mr Lim Kit Siang turned up at his house and suddenly became his No. 1 supporter.
The strategy was obvious. The DAP wanted to break the Malay dominance in Parliament. Break up the Malay vote. And it did not take very long. In 1999 (the year after he was kicked out) the opposition did very well in the elections. In 2008 the DAP won Penang, Lim Guan Eng became Chief Minister and 16 years later the DAP still rules Penang.
In 2008 the DAP also won in Perak and Selangor. Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu were won by PAS. 16 years later the DAP / PH still rules Selangor.
So the strategy to hoist the chameleon as Mandela has indeed been wildly successful for the DAP. The Malay vote has indeed been broken. Perhaps permanently.
But throughout much of this time (from 1999) there was a major saving grace for the DAP - Mandela was in jail. Mandela's wife (who has my highest regard and respect) stepped in most faithfully and loyally for her husband. She really held her party together.
But after his release from jail (the latest release was after the 2018 elections) he has been causing havoc. The wife has completely withdrawn from the scene. Their party has been in turmoil, they got their asses kicked in the SIX State By Elections and now they have been kicked in the ass again in Sg Bakap.
And reading the comments by Finance Twitter above, it looks like Dr Jekyll has disappeared. Mr Hyde is back.
The DAP's risky experiment that began in 1998 has perhaps outlived its usefulness. Beyond this point the DAP is going to be carrying a liability. A liability that will become more difficult to manage.
Finance Twitter above correctly identifies Mandela's fixation with Palestine, Hamas, the Muslim vote, the Malay vote etc. To charm and hoodwink Malays that he is the world’s best Muslim hero
The bigger question is why his fixation with Malays, Muslims, Hamas, Palestine, being a Muslim hero etc?
Why not be a Malaysian hero ? Because he never felt comfortable with the DAP or the Chinese. Its as simple as that. For 16 years he was one of the chief proponents of ketuanan. Lu sudah lupa kah? Have you forgotten?
Even if he gets ZERO votes from the Malays, he still does not prefer the DAP. When the chameleon decides to become a leopard, then the leopard never changes its spots.
The leopard is now perched at the highest spot up in the tree. Still does not know how the savannah functions. But its a better view of the prey.
The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.
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