Sunday, October 18, 2009

Chasing Shadows

Nowadays, topic of the day is 'Change' particularly by political parties clinging to power. In fact their main and perhaps only purpose of propagating changes is none other than their fear of losing power which is slipping either gradually or at a faster rate depending on the People. We heard of the 'Cari Makan' party and indeed the dominant parties existing today are sources of living of many particularly those leaders who today are calling for changes. Changes for others but certainly it is not applicable to them.

During the height of the fuel crisis months ago, they are the ones who call upon the mass to sacrifice, to change their life style while they themselves continue to lead a wasteful life. In fact, long before they call on the People to sacrifice, the latter have been doing the same much earlier. Some have to sell their cars and opt for unreliable public transport, some no longer enjoy eating outside but instead they opt to cook and bring their breakfast and lunch from home.

Changes, for those good for nothing opportunistic scums merely serve as a rhetoric and to shield themselves from criticism for their wasteful and extravagant life style. From as low as being a branch head till the highest ranking official, they are involved in politics merely to serve their own interest reaping everything they can from the office they held which supposedly for helping and serving the mass. It has come to a new height even for those aspiring contractors, if they are not party officials they need to be close to those in power. Hence, we have shoddy works all around since they do not possess the required skills.

People view the changes as none other than the leaders attempt to hold on to power as long as they can while they continue to fool the People behind their backs. Sadly, many fall prey to their awesome oratory skill, promising yet another phantasmagoria to deceive the mass while they drain the nation resources dry and thereafter leave in unimaginable luxury.

It is comical to see how exited those leaders and their supporters in viewing the recently concluded BP by election. They are saying that the People are returning to them but as some political analysts observed it is merely retaining the status quo since BP originally belongs to them. I still remember the Ijok by election just before the 12 GEin 2008, the voters there opted to retain the ruling coalition but later in the 12th GE, they turned the table around kicking the ruling coalition out though the candidate was the same person before the 12th GE.

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