COMMENT | The futility of the non-Malay vote

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”

- Thomas Jefferson

COMMENT | One of the reasons I enjoy most of what political scientist Wong Chin Huat says and writes is because he gets it.

That question he asked - “How many times will PAS come to (Prime Minister) Anwar (Ibrahim) and Madani’s rescue?” defines Madani in its outreach to voters and governmental policies both overt and sub rosa using PAS as foil to its toxic agendas.

From a non-Malay perspective, there are two ways of looking at the “Green Wave”.

The first is how former DAP lawmaker Ong Kian Ming defines the “Green Wave” as a lazy shorthand.

“This kind of sentiment is particularly unhelpful, especially when it comes to understanding the different demands of the increasingly diverse Malay community in Malaysia,” he said.

The second is by a losing...