Racial based strategies still have their magic

Parti Sosialis Malaysia pro-tem secretary general S. Arutchelvan must have been dreaming when he said that dirty racial-based strategies would no longer work in future elections.

Arutchelvan, have you ever ‘turun padang’ and spend some time with those living in rural and isolated areas such as kampungs?

Our kind of people who are internet savvy and spent plenty of time reading online news dished out by MalaysiaKini, HarakahDaily and local socio-political bloggers are much more open-minded with higher sense of understanding. We all know each other pretty well. I guess our kind of people is the true Malaysian example.

But we have to honestly ask ourselves. How many percent of the Malaysian population do we represent? Hell, possibly lesser than 5%! Our non racial-based thoughts and good understanding among us is insignificant!

Sorry to say that those living in rural and isolated areas totally deprived of technologies such as the internet and alternative newsprint media such as Harakah are not at all like us. Malaysians in general are still pretty much racists deep down inside. :-(

Hates to deliver the bad news but I’m afraid that racial-based political strategies would once again weave their magic like always as we have seen in the past.

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