The government you elect is the government you deserve

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“The government you elect is the government you deserve” was supposedly said by Thomas Jefferson, and the quote “…every nation gets the government it deserves” is attributed to Joseph de Maistre.

Jefferson was a Founding Father of the US and de Maistre was a French philosopher. With hindsight, what these two men postulated rings true.

Although in Malaysia, at the last general election, the people voted to give 55.86% of our parliamentary seats to one alliance, but the government today is made of parliamentarians from another coalition.

Perhaps Malaysia in 2018 was the exception to the general rule.

Like many Malaysians, I observe the political landscape in our country. Of course, it is tiresome and fatigue inducing. But the country’s politics is like a bad road accident on our highways. You don’t want to slow down yet somehow you just cannot help but look and be horrified.

So, what’s happening in the southern tip of the peninsula is quite embarrassing with our ‘disgraced’ former leader holding court and garnering raptured attention everywhere he goes.

I place the word disgraced in parenthesis, because he doesn’t look like a politician who has fallen, been thoroughly humiliated, and absolutely disgraced, does he?

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