From Nan Yang Siang Pau (extracts):
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... when Lim Kit Siang announced to join forces with Mahathir, it really caught the Chinese community by surprise and it was totally unbelievable especially among the grass root members of DAP.
Although Lim Kit Siang stressed that he had formed an alliance with Mahathir to attack their common enemy in order to save the nation, many people did not buy his rationale. They opined that Mahathir was a diehard racist who would never change his racist colours. Likewise Muhyiddin would not shed off his mindset of Malay supremacy easily. Nevertheless a majority of the party members chose to remain silent.
The 509 general election is less than 3 weeks from now. How would Pakatan Harapan calm and diffuse the uneasiness with the Mahathir and Muhyiddin factor among the members is quite crucial; internal threat is more frightening than facing external threats. Internal threat in the party is deadly and all politicians know this taboo.
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"When I was in the government, I vilified them because I wanted to win the elections. ...
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The internal hidden hand is a deadly threat in politics
... when Lim Kit Siang announced to join forces with Mahathir, it really caught the Chinese community by surprise and it was totally unbelievable especially among the grass root members of DAP.
Although Lim Kit Siang stressed that he had formed an alliance with Mahathir to attack their common enemy in order to save the nation, many people did not buy his rationale. They opined that Mahathir was a diehard racist who would never change his racist colours. Likewise Muhyiddin would not shed off his mindset of Malay supremacy easily. Nevertheless a majority of the party members chose to remain silent.
The 509 general election is less than 3 weeks from now. How would Pakatan Harapan calm and diffuse the uneasiness with the Mahathir and Muhyiddin factor among the members is quite crucial; internal threat is more frightening than facing external threats. Internal threat in the party is deadly and all politicians know this taboo.
In short, has Lim Kit Siang gone too far in bulldozing his personal political agenda?
Is there a silent disquiet amongst DAP members, especially the older ones?
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Don't blame them as for 49 years (nearly half a century) they recognise Mahathir as a diehard racist who would never change his racist colours, from days when he told the Chinese voters in Kotar Setar Selatan to f**k off with their Chinese votes as he didn't need them (and to his loss to PMIP's Yusof Rawa, which must have made Mahathir even more mad at Chinese) ...
... to his blunt cold treatment of and warning ("or else") to Dong Jiao Zong vis-a-vis the UEC when he was Education Minister, ...
... to Ops Lalang when he made the racist statement that (words to the effect) "Chinese coming together to meet at a Chinese temple is foreboding" ...
... and then went on to jailed 106 people of mostly Chinese (DAP) ethnicity (including his current best friend Lim Kit Siang), which he confessed in the 22 Oct 2017 copy of TMI that he did it to win the election (extracts): Dr Mahathir Mohamad will concede this: many of those detained [in Ops Lalang] were good people and he had demonised them to win elections.
"When I was in the government, I vilified them because I wanted to win the elections. ...
... to his treachery of promises made to Suqui in 2000, after they supported him in the 1999 GE based on his promise to fulfil the Chinese NGO's 17 point request, but calling Suqui as equivalent to the communists after he won the election ...
... to telling Najib off for pampering the Chinese who, he said, did not want to support BN ... and words like "the Chinese ruled Malaysia" ...
... to his present anti-China investments policy, etc etc etc.
Can the DAP members and supporters really accept the DAP's partnership with this anti-Chinese politician?
Can they trust Lim Kit Siang who has not consulted them of his intention to ally with Mahathir and who bulldozed his personal agenda through?
Can they accept that allying with Pribumi means having racist candidates among them including Pribumi candidate like former EC Commissioner Abdul Rashid who is also a VP of the ultra Malay fascist NGO? See my post Does Lim Kit Siang has guts to question credentials of a Pakatan candidate?.
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former EC Commissioner Abdul Rashid is also a VP of PERKASA the ultra Malay fascist NGO 3 re-delineation exercises under my tenure were aimed at continuing Malay political dominance he is now a candidate of Pakatan Harapan |