In recent weeks the run up to the 13th General Election for Malaysia has been somewhat of a circus if not a fracas. Being described as one of the "dirtiest" election witnessed, one can't help but to concur with such a statement as the amount of sexual allegations and alleged exploits surface with wide circulation and distribution of video clips and even in hardcopy CD/DVD formats being available. I can't help but wonder is this an election or a bad attempt of an erection that the political figures are heading towards.
The amount of of campaigning and future promises being made if politicians are erected or re-erected fill the air with public speeches and being posted on every available erected structure such as telephone poles, electricle poles, dancing poles, trees, etc. I use to think loan sharks and sleazy volcano massage posters were bad but the general erection posters top the icing of the cake. (Funny that all the Ah Long "loansharks" have gone dark with their posters that usually sprout and grow like wild mushrooms over the same structures).
Political dancing reminds me of 2 scenes.
1. Western films whereby the cowboy toys with his opponent by shooting at the feet of his adversary to force him to dance;
2. A monkey with a cup hat being trained to dance for his keep when his caretaker plays the music box.
Both scene seems to play in my head whenever I see how campaign works with mudslinging slanders being thrown at either party. Again reinforcing the whole dirtiest erection statement.
Anyway some disturbing self thoughts.....
1. While I support democracy, it is at the end not a game of wits and wisdom. It is a numbers game.
2. Democracy is achieved when the majority of votes swing to the top contender, and it is well known that quantity does not always represent quality although in an ideal world it should be an equilibrium of both (but we don't live in an ideal world.....politicians only make us believe there is hope of an ideal world)
3. Statistics from India in March 2011 shows that only 2.77 of their 1.21 billion population pay taxes. (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/187531/only-277-percent-indias-population.html). While the official number is not released in Malaysia (doubt it will ever be officially released), speculations put that number between 1 to 10%.
4. In the UK, the highest earning 1% of Britons pay 30% of all income tax (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106951/High-earning-1-pay-income-tax.html).
5. And yet in democracy, it means that people who don't pay taxes will have the same voting rights as those who support the bulk of the country's taxation income.
6. Corporations are smart to not let their consumers and workers vote for office bearers, unless they are valid shareholders. Even such a certain quantum would represent the amount of votes a person can carry. Yet it is still democracy as the majority winner (amongst the shareholders) will take office and hold power.
7. So to put in perspective, the General Election stands for a voting system whereby leaders will take office and shape or break the country for the next 5 years, and the voters qualified to cast their choices may well be low or non-contributors to the government income.
(But then again, car owners who pay massive amount of road tax still use the same deplorable congested roads as those who pay pittance for road tax)
VOTE WISELY MALAYSIANS (and newly qualified "Malaysians")
