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Welcoming racists and bigots into Harapan - By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Malaysiakini : ā€œBaldrick, I have a very, very, very cunning plan.ā€ - Blackadder
COMMENT | Blogger Hafidz Baharom rightly asks, who are they (Pakatan Harapan) trying to convince when Harapan loyalists question analysis pointing to a possible BN victory. Especially important is the PAS problem - the one-time bete noire turned ally turned bete noire (again) of DAP.  PAS vice-president Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah is floating the "unimaginable" idea that PAS could lead the country, and while everyone else laughs at them, they are playing the long game.
No doubt, Umno is weak but being in a vulnerable position does not mean that victory is impossible for them especially when the system is rigged in favour of the establishment. Add to this, the opposition is fragmented, spending as much time fighting amongst themselves as they do dealing with issues of race and religion because they do not have a unified message on both.
The problem is that the opposition does not have a clear message for the average citizen ā€“ ā€œBersatu central committee member Tariq Ismail Mustafa (photo) said that rural folks needed to be convinced that ā€˜changeā€™ can happen, but what exactly does change mean? What are they changing to? Whenever I talk to PSM people, I know exactly what message they are sending to people. A grassroots message that involves how the system oppresses the average citizen, which is linked to the local affairs of the community they are contesting in.ā€

This, of course, is purely anecdotal but nearly every PAS supporter whom I have spoken to who despises the close friendship between PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and the Umno regime, will still hold their noses and support the agenda of the PAS leadership, because at this moment in time, it is party over personality. The feeling is the same as those in the GOP (Grand Old Party) who despise Donald Trump and his candidates but who vote for both because of the party Trump claims to represent ā€“ the Republicans.
Dismissing PAS as inconsequential is a mistake. In fact, I know that PKR understands this more than any other party in Harapan. Unfortunately for the opposition, Hafidzā€™s opinion on the dialectic within the Malay community is correct, which brings us to MCA leader Ti Lian Kerā€™s worry that the DAP is welcoming extreme Malay-centric leaders into Harapan.
Can we just call them bigots and racists? While MCA is in no position to question this move ā€“ merely because Umno has become more extreme in its Malay-centric perspective ā€“ the reality is that DAP is in no position to do anything about extreme Malay right-wing elements within Harapan. By embracing former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, his newly-formed party and the desideratum of Bersatu, DAP has forfeited the moral high ground. Malay power structures in the opposition are desperate to bolster their credibility in the Malay demographic. Meanwhile, non-Malay power structures are desperate to secure the Malay vote by any means necessary.

I worry about this ā€“ ā€œHere is the thing, though. There is nothing anyone can say that would change peopleā€™s mind. I worry about the day when a smart Umno political operative would debate an oppositional political operative and it would be revealed that beyond the 1MDB issue there is not much difference between the opposition and the establishment when it comes to policy and ideology, especially now that Bersatu is in the mix.ā€
Destabilising Umno
Ti makes a very good point when he asks, ā€œIs DAP going to be responsible for empowering Perkasa later, the way they have empowered PAS before?ā€ The only reason why PAS is mainstream is because of the pragmatism of the late Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat (photo) and the equilibrium that the DAP managed to create within the disparate alliance.

However, the signs were always present that the extreme elements within PAS were waiting patiently to make their move. There can be no denying that DAP, as the sole mainstream oppositional voice of non-Malays, enabled PAS.
In hindsight, even though the opposition went through their messy break-up, the alliance with PAS demonstrated to Malaysians that it was possible to form and succeed in alternative coalitions, if politicians were willing to work together. It was what Malaysians desperately needed and the so-called marriage of convenience hinted at a possible way beyond Barisan National.
At this point, nobody in the opposition would bat an eyelid if members of the red shirts decided to join the Harapan because they had lost faith in how Umno defended ā€œMalayā€ rights. I doubt DAP or any other non-Malay political operatives would draw a red line in the sand, and news of these racists and bigots joining Harapan would be met in the same way as how PAS members hold their noses and vote for their party even though they despise the company their leadership keeps.
The real tragedy, of course, is that this may actually work. The ā€œtragedyā€ will happen after a possible Harapan electoral win, but this is something which in typical Harapan fashion would be dealt with after the Najib regime is vanquished. While Hafidz's contention that Umno scored points with the Jerusalem fiasco, the headscarves brouhaha and PAS in their RU355 dance, this idea that Harapan is open to extreme right-wing Malay elements is also a draw for many within the Malay community who view the Mahathir years as the epitome of Malay power.
More importantly, while the youth vote is floundering for various reasons, the older Malay demographic that is a reliable vote bank for Umno could be turned in favour of the wiliest Malay political operative this country has had - Mahathir. Securing new votes is important but equally important is securing votes in play. We have to keep in mind that all Mahathir has to do to win is to destabilise Umno to the point that the powerbrokers in Umno see no profit in supporting the current Umno grand poohbah. Then all manner of unimaginable ways through reconciliations and reformation could herald the birth of a new Malay power structure favouring the old methods of Umno.
In the land of endless possibilities, unimaginable ways can come to fruition.
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