Cina Bodoh Sombong?

Dear RPK, I can understand your frustration. But sometimes, you don't seem to be as wise as I thought you were.

In your recent post in Malaysia Today, you said that BN/UMNO will win the coming Tenang by-election because the cina and indian bodoh sombongs will continue to vote for them.

Dear RPK, you can't win over people by calling them names. You have to find out why people choose to vote the way they do.

Whether you like it or not, it is the Malays as a whole who have to wake up if there is to be a change, for they constitute the majority in many constituencies.

And remember, in the last general elections BN/UMNO did not win the majority of the peninsular votes. It was because of the Sabah and Sarawak votes that BN/UMNO were able to form the federal government.

Obviously a substantial number of Malays voters in peninsular Malaysia must have voted for BN/UMNO in the last GE, otherwise even with the Sabah and Sarawak votes BN/UMNO would not have the numbers to form the federal government.

Are the Malays bodoh sombong also? I think not. They must have had their own reasons, whatever these might be, to have had voted for BN/UMNO.

We have to find out the reasons and try to convince the voters why we need a change and not take the easy way out by calling them names.

So, RPK, dam your frustrations and soldier on.

Battles are not won or lost overnight.