LETTER | Marching into GE15 in leadership vacuum

LETTER | Sooner or later, the 15th general election will happen. What will not happen is the promising rise and hope in a leader who can put our nation's future back on its tracks.

This is the stark reality haunting an already crippling Malaysia.

Yes, corruption has rooted in cancer. Yes, our economy is no more a celebrated sunrise. Yes, our national productivity - the civil service engine, has been plunging. Yes, our private enterprise is riddled with greed.

Our ill-conceived debts have cratered our future. We have trapped ourselves in the gorges of racism and paralysed a multi-religious Malaysia with religious intolerance and divisiveness.

Beneath all these truths lurk the mother of all evils and that is Malaysia has been robbed of a leader - thanks to the Machiavellian thrusts of one man in past decades.

Today, while concerned, patriotic, peace-loving citizens have never failed to register all that is not going right for the nation and even offered multiple, possible ways forward out of the dumps, we know that what Malaysia needs ultimately is gravely missing.

A leader who can command the trust and respect of all sides of the divide.

A leader who can stand tall, walk tall and bulldoze a path for a rejuvenated Malaysia, resurrecting us from the numerous rots that have swamped our future.

But we do not have that leader. We do not see anyone.

Although we are prospecting some hopes in certain individuals, the reality is we are divided with chasms of reservations.

There is no one political party that commands a majority hope.

There is no single individual - weather-beaten, spent bullet, proven stellar or rising star, who can ignite the flame of hope among a vast, clear majority of Malaysians.

That is how fractured and fragmented the political landscape is and for a respected, hopeful single leader to even sprout is a forgone conclusion.

And it is in this dampening climate we are pinning all hopes on a general election around the corner.

There’s no leader. There’s no great majority of supporters.

This Catch-22 predicament can only further compound the future ahead of us - a path we have to navigate in a sea of an impending world war, economic resets, social desperations and uncharted tribulations.

Has anyone got a solution? Let’s bring it out.

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