BARISAN LOST BECAUSE THE VOTERS WERE IN THE ‘EITHER OR’ SITUATION WHEN THEY HAD TO VOTE FOR THE OTHER COALITION FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN THEY HAD TO V
…THEY SHOULD BE IN THE ‘NEITHER NOR’ SITUATION WHEN THEY DO NOT HAVE TO VOTE FOR ANYONE IF THEY HAD CHOSEN NOT TO VOTE BARISAN.
By Mansor Puteh
VOTERS GAVE THEIR VOTES TO PAKATAN IN THE TWELFTH GENERAL ELECTION OF MARCH 2008, NOT BECAUSE THEY LIKE THEM, THEIR LEADERS AND THEIR CAUSE.
THEY VOTED PAKATAN BECAUSE THEY DID NOT LIKE BARISAN MORE, AND IN THE PROCESS UNWITTINGLY GAVE THEIR VOTES TO PAKATAN.
BECAUSE THE SITUATION IS THAT VOTING IS AN ‘EITHER OR’ SITUATION WHEN IT SHOULD NOT BE SO.
It should be a ‘neither nor’ situation when voters do not have to vote for anyone or Pakatan if he does not like the Barisan candidate.
So the many Pakatan candidates who won in the last general election cannot say that they were liked by the voters. They were not. The voters did not know who they were in the first place; they just did not wish to cross the box for Barisan.
Maybe the Elections Commissions or Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia (SPM) should have a third box for those who do not wish to vote for Barisan or Pakatan. And they are not spoilt votes by votes that are not for any of the candidates.
In this way the opposition cannot get ‘free’ votes from the voters who did not want to vote Barisan.
So Barisan did not do much not to deserve the votes from some of the voters who had not voted for them; the same with Pakatan who also did not deserve to get such votes from voters who felt disenfranchised because they felt the coalition had not served them and they wanted to test and see if Pakatan would work for them.
Pakatan has not. And this is what Barisan has also not realized fully as its senior leaders continue to chastised them for being slaggard, when they can do more t contain dissent within the Barisan supporters and other potential Barisan voters.
The voters have also realized that Pakatan cannot deliver.
Voting in any election is not an ‘either or’ case; it should be a ‘neither nor’ case when one does not have to vote just because one is a registered voter and if Barisan and Pakatan do not have intelligent candidates.
This was what I did in the march, 2008 general election when I refrained from voting because both the candidates were dumb. They looked dumb and they did not possess the necessary professional and academic qualification to get a vote from me.
Worse, they did not campaign in the constituencies so I could pose some questions to them.
In the end the voters voted for one of them causing the opposition to win in the state and parliament constituencies, even when they did not know who they were voting for and why.
They just knew they had to vote for someone. And that time, they did not feel they wanted to vote Barisan.
It’s not that the voters had deliberately wanted to vote Pakatan in the last 2008 general elections. Far from it.
It’s not that they had suddenly hated Barisan and loved Pakatan. Far from it too.
The fact is that they did not wish to vote Barisan based on the choices they had comprising of many old goats and other loud-mouths whom they thought they had had enough of.
And it’s just that they just did not wish to vote for Barisan and because of that they had no choice but to ‘cross’ the other box for Pakatan instead.
Yet, there are many who chose not to vote for anyone simply because they did not want to vote Barisan and had to vote Pakatan, which they did not want to do.
I did not vote for anyone because the choice of candidates from Barisan and Pakatan is bad. I did not know any of them. And they had not been known to care for the well-being of the people.
They were nominated by their coalition parties because of some other reasons, and not because they have leadership quality.
Many of the voters have better leadership quality and better education. But they are not interested in politics, which they say are for those who can’t make the grade in school, which is true, since most of them are university dropouts with just a general degree on anything.
This was the reason why Pakatan triumphed in the elections which saw many unknown entities whom they had placed as their candidates winning.
And not surprisingly, most of them are still unknowns despite being turned to parliament and the state executive councils of the various states in the country.
They were unknowns who had not shown any leadership quality or even written any letter that was published in the paper to prove that they care for the public.
The voters in the country have all been taught to vote. If they do not vote for one party, then they simply have to vote for the other party.
They are in the ‘Either or’ situation.
It’s time that they are taught to be in the ‘Neither nor’ situation when they do not need to vote if they do not wish to choose Barisan. They did not have to give their votes to Pakatan if they think this coalition did not deserve them.
I did not vote in the last general elections because the candidates from Barisan and Pakatan were dumb. They did not turn up to rally, so I could pose some questions to them.
All of them who contested in my parliament and state constituencies are not so well educated. They can’t speak or write in English well. I had not known who they were and those who were voted in are still relatively unknowns.
So why should I give them my vote anyway?
The results of the last general elections would have been a lot different if the voters were smarter who had chosen not to vote if they did not feel comfortable with the candidates offered by Barisan – the same old goats who were trounced anyway by the voters, because their parties in Barisan did not take heed of their concerns.
So even if they got the support of their own parties and of the Barisan leadership, they still could be trounced by the voters, especially those who harped on anti-Melayu sentiments when they could and got away with.
They could still win in their party elections. But the voters have the final decision on the matter when many of them were voted out.
These included those who had been around in the government too long. They have become fabulously wealthy as a result.
Yet, upon retirement, none of them could go on from where they had left having been in the cabinet for so long to establish their name in the world.
They ended being chairmen and advisors of major companies.
This is all the experience that they could get being in the cabinet and in national politics give them.
They have not even visited the constituencies to solve problems of the people here. Chances are they would not dare come by because they are not genuine representatives of the people.
They are just representatives of their respective parties.
By Mansor Puteh
VOTERS GAVE THEIR VOTES TO PAKATAN IN THE TWELFTH GENERAL ELECTION OF MARCH 2008, NOT BECAUSE THEY LIKE THEM, THEIR LEADERS AND THEIR CAUSE.
THEY VOTED PAKATAN BECAUSE THEY DID NOT LIKE BARISAN MORE, AND IN THE PROCESS UNWITTINGLY GAVE THEIR VOTES TO PAKATAN.
BECAUSE THE SITUATION IS THAT VOTING IS AN ‘EITHER OR’ SITUATION WHEN IT SHOULD NOT BE SO.
It should be a ‘neither nor’ situation when voters do not have to vote for anyone or Pakatan if he does not like the Barisan candidate.
So the many Pakatan candidates who won in the last general election cannot say that they were liked by the voters. They were not. The voters did not know who they were in the first place; they just did not wish to cross the box for Barisan.
Maybe the Elections Commissions or Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia (SPM) should have a third box for those who do not wish to vote for Barisan or Pakatan. And they are not spoilt votes by votes that are not for any of the candidates.
In this way the opposition cannot get ‘free’ votes from the voters who did not want to vote Barisan.
So Barisan did not do much not to deserve the votes from some of the voters who had not voted for them; the same with Pakatan who also did not deserve to get such votes from voters who felt disenfranchised because they felt the coalition had not served them and they wanted to test and see if Pakatan would work for them.
Pakatan has not. And this is what Barisan has also not realized fully as its senior leaders continue to chastised them for being slaggard, when they can do more t contain dissent within the Barisan supporters and other potential Barisan voters.
The voters have also realized that Pakatan cannot deliver.
Voting in any election is not an ‘either or’ case; it should be a ‘neither nor’ case when one does not have to vote just because one is a registered voter and if Barisan and Pakatan do not have intelligent candidates.
This was what I did in the march, 2008 general election when I refrained from voting because both the candidates were dumb. They looked dumb and they did not possess the necessary professional and academic qualification to get a vote from me.
Worse, they did not campaign in the constituencies so I could pose some questions to them.
In the end the voters voted for one of them causing the opposition to win in the state and parliament constituencies, even when they did not know who they were voting for and why.
They just knew they had to vote for someone. And that time, they did not feel they wanted to vote Barisan.
It’s not that the voters had deliberately wanted to vote Pakatan in the last 2008 general elections. Far from it.
It’s not that they had suddenly hated Barisan and loved Pakatan. Far from it too.
The fact is that they did not wish to vote Barisan based on the choices they had comprising of many old goats and other loud-mouths whom they thought they had had enough of.
And it’s just that they just did not wish to vote for Barisan and because of that they had no choice but to ‘cross’ the other box for Pakatan instead.
Yet, there are many who chose not to vote for anyone simply because they did not want to vote Barisan and had to vote Pakatan, which they did not want to do.
I did not vote for anyone because the choice of candidates from Barisan and Pakatan is bad. I did not know any of them. And they had not been known to care for the well-being of the people.
They were nominated by their coalition parties because of some other reasons, and not because they have leadership quality.
Many of the voters have better leadership quality and better education. But they are not interested in politics, which they say are for those who can’t make the grade in school, which is true, since most of them are university dropouts with just a general degree on anything.
This was the reason why Pakatan triumphed in the elections which saw many unknown entities whom they had placed as their candidates winning.
And not surprisingly, most of them are still unknowns despite being turned to parliament and the state executive councils of the various states in the country.
They were unknowns who had not shown any leadership quality or even written any letter that was published in the paper to prove that they care for the public.
The voters in the country have all been taught to vote. If they do not vote for one party, then they simply have to vote for the other party.
They are in the ‘Either or’ situation.
It’s time that they are taught to be in the ‘Neither nor’ situation when they do not need to vote if they do not wish to choose Barisan. They did not have to give their votes to Pakatan if they think this coalition did not deserve them.
I did not vote in the last general elections because the candidates from Barisan and Pakatan were dumb. They did not turn up to rally, so I could pose some questions to them.
All of them who contested in my parliament and state constituencies are not so well educated. They can’t speak or write in English well. I had not known who they were and those who were voted in are still relatively unknowns.
So why should I give them my vote anyway?
The results of the last general elections would have been a lot different if the voters were smarter who had chosen not to vote if they did not feel comfortable with the candidates offered by Barisan – the same old goats who were trounced anyway by the voters, because their parties in Barisan did not take heed of their concerns.
So even if they got the support of their own parties and of the Barisan leadership, they still could be trounced by the voters, especially those who harped on anti-Melayu sentiments when they could and got away with.
They could still win in their party elections. But the voters have the final decision on the matter when many of them were voted out.
These included those who had been around in the government too long. They have become fabulously wealthy as a result.
Yet, upon retirement, none of them could go on from where they had left having been in the cabinet for so long to establish their name in the world.
They ended being chairmen and advisors of major companies.
This is all the experience that they could get being in the cabinet and in national politics give them.
They have not even visited the constituencies to solve problems of the people here. Chances are they would not dare come by because they are not genuine representatives of the people.
They are just representatives of their respective parties.
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