Why do we choose narrow-mindedness over integrity?

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We just had a state election last weekend.

Thankfully the “frogs” or the opportunistic party hoppers lost their seats. But the voters in Melaka sent the former politicians who lost their positions in 2018, primarily for the lack of integrity, back to power.

It was a strange result, if you consider that everyone harps on about integrity and righteousness.

Granted, it was a “mid-term” single state election. The turnout was pretty low at about 65%, and the vote majority gained by the overall victors were clearly slim in most constituencies. The obvious gerrymandering of the electoral map definitely played a role, especially with the low number of voters.

Most significantly perhaps, the fatigue that many people have with the credibility of those politicians who were supposed to give us “hope” the last time round, contributed to the return to power of Malaysia’s formidable, if not seriously tainted, coalition.

This time, even with so many pending legal charges, corruption claims, and allegations of malfeasance, they are back in control, as a result of a direct election, and not by the ubiquitous “backdoor”.

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