COMMENT | Reconciliation is what we really need now

COMMENT | If all our leaders are not politically insane (which many seem to be), they must surely know what is urgently needed in this country now.

It is national reconciliation.

I’m tempted to say that will not happen although it must, for the sake of our nation and people. Our leaders seemed to be lost and groping in the dark during these strange and challenging times. We have to bring them back to sanity.

Malaysia cannot go on being governed the way it is. Are we on auto-pilot? Where are we heading? We cannot have a prime minister who is dependent on an emergency to continue in office. We must bring this to a halt, the sooner the better.

Nor can we have an opposition that cares about nothing else except to wrest back power. Opposition figures can disagree with my statement but this is what ordinary Malaysians think. So, better believe it.

Why, even some young idiots in the opposition have been squabbling of late over a party logo to use in the elections? What is this? Malaysians are dying by the hundreds weekly and all these so-called young politicians (supposedly to be groomed as future leaders) are talking about is election.

It is true. I have very little respect and confidence in the current crop of leaders from both sides. I have written about my uneasiness many times, so much so that even some of them whom I call friends are not that friendly anymore. So be it.

To be honest, there have been times when the irate me would wish that all of them would suddenly drop dead one day so that Malaysia can start afresh with a new team.

To me, any new group cannot be worse than Perikatan Nasional or Pakatan Harapan. I am prepared to take the risk with a new, clean slate.

Since we are stuck with the same old, same old who just refuse to go away, we have to hope that this Covid-19 pandemic, if not anything else, has awakened them to think seriously about charting a new direction...