Time for PKR to be the change they want to see

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BlueJaguar0861: The Sheraton Move was a significant setback for Anwar. No one should trust the traitor (Azmin) who initiated the move that broke the trust people had in Anwar and PKR.

Rafizi and Nurul must revive that trust. No one will ever trust Azmin anymore. All Malaysians must come together as one and remove all corrupted politicians.

The Wakandan: “This does not mean that Malay voters are any more racist than others, as all are guilty in roughly equal measures of racism.”

True. This is the hard talk. There are not many multiracial countries in the world with different ethnic groups practising their culture, language and religion distinctly. In this sense, Malaysia is rather unique.

Politics is always to garner support and the easiest way to do that in Malaysia is for each race to appeal to its own race. Any others come second.

There is no perfect formula but our forefathers in their simple way saw fit to form parties that mirrored this. Different parties for the different races then formed a coalition or an alliance.

Thus, we had Umno, MCA and MIC respectively for the three major races in Malaya. That seemed to work, for a while at least.

However, the dominant party began to up the ante, to get more support and benefit. Then things began to get awry. That’s what we have today.

PKR tried to do away with racial politics. They can only be supported by the minority races who lost out in a racial party system and the dominant race (Malays) who saw its failure. As long as that holds true, PKR would still get their support.

However, once that status quo is shifted, then by the same token, the support would be lost too.

PKR’s feature has shifted because Anwar changed his outlook in order to cater for the support of the dominant race. He flirted with the usual racism and religious factors.

Currently, more importantly, both factors – PKR multiracial appeal and BN’s failure – are not there anymore. The pre-GE14 scenario is less conspicuous now.

That’s the reason PKR lost its relevance, and both the Malays and the non-Malays began to abandon them.

PKR needs to find its essence back. And I agree with the writer, Martin. It can start with a change in leadership or at least in its policies.

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