Teh o ais limau. Empty, boring mamak. One hour to kill.
1. 1Malaysia, as a concept and aspiration, is necessary for the betterment of all.
2. However, how fast we try to achieve it, must be thought out carefully.
3. Go too slow, and Najib will be deemed as not meeting the growing and vocal demands of the political liberals (predominantly non-Bumi), and probably lose even more ground amongst the non-BN and fence-sitters in the next General Election.
4. Go too fast, and he will lose his own political mileage within UMNO, and with that BN's hope of winning the next GE.
5. He is caught between losing what he has, or losing what he needs to have.
6. The political liberals do have valid points in a lot of their demands.
7. At the same time, they have also failed to understand, or even try to understand, that in politics and life, sometimes being theoretically right is not sufficient. A sense of perspective, and a wider viewpoint, would lead a lot of them to realize that life does not start and end in Kuala Lumpur only.
8. The political conservatives (predominantly Malay) has grown wary and weary with the demands, or rather, the verbalization of demands after years of being used to life as a "protected species".
9. The speed of change, either too fast or slow, may result in a complete failure of achieving a united Malaysia.
10. Push too many things to fast, and a growing number of Malays will suddenly find themselves aligning more and more with the likes of PERKASA, which is far from the ideal scenario for anyone.
11. A segregated and segmented Malay diaspora is slowly taking shape as we speak, and will continue to grow if they cannot find a moderate voice from one single party. This will lead to extremism, fueling political instability within the Malay population, paving the way for a non-dominant political majority. For a growing country aspiring to be recognized as a developed nation, this is a potential banana skin.
12. Push too little things too slow, and by GE 13, there's no hope in hell that the non-Bumis, in particular the Chinese, would ever put Barisan in power.
13. The effect of which would place the potential for a coalition of convenience to be in power. Whether they'd actually result in a united Malaysia is a different matter entirely, especially as a matter of principle one party must claim that anyone who doesn't subscribe to their form of governance would go to hell (no small matter).
14. If only one side just try to understand that, just like Amy Winehouse, rehab is not easy.
15. If only the other side can imagine joining a club but not being allowed to use some facilities, which is open to other types of members, despite paying the same fees and fulfilling the same entry requirements.
16. If 14 and 15 happens, then 1Malaysia will stop just being a catchy slogan, but the new reality for our beloved nation.
p/s: If you're in Najib's shoes right now, what would you do?
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