THE END OF THE MAHATHIR ERA - ONLY FUTILE ATTEMPTS TO GRAB POWER, WHICH WILL GRADUALLY REVEAL HIS TRUE SELF.
For twenty-two years, he moulded this nation into what it is today. Not everything he did was bad, but it is not what it seems. He had failed to make Malaysia realise its full and true potential.
But that is not his mortal sin. He had his human limitations. His sins were indeed human; greed for power and all that it can bring; the hypocrisy that normally accompany such bent; the personal ill-feelings and sense of ego that pushed him to pursue frivolous causes; and most of all, his firm belief that he was smarter than his peers.
A true national leader prepares his nation for the future, not destroys its national institutions that characterise and assure its consistency.
A true national leader helps prepare for a peaceful transition of leadership, not supress it in order to ensure his own longevity of rule, and be called back to rule because there’s no one influential enough!The generations of leaders-to-be were lost in the wait for his mediocre sons to continue a dynasty, when he hopefully dies in office!
A good national leader focuses on nation-building, not prefers to divide and rule a multi-racial nation. Even in the best of times, he invokes racial sentiments to remain relevant. Today, he is beaten in this game by his own bosom buddy!
It is pathetic now to see him jump around seeking his true racial support. He needs Non-Malay support for an initial win, but he needs Malay support for the long run. Nothing wrong with that. Just don’t bad-mouth them as and when it is opportune to you. People do have long memories! If they tolerate your hypocrisy, it’s because they have their own reasons!
A good national leader instil values of hard-work and an honest life-style among his political supporters. Not create monsters that are coming back to haunt him with the very values that he had taught them.
A good leader‘s vision is not myopic and not limited to the length of his own legacy. That is why his involvement is unnecessarily lengthy, until he overstays his welcome. And age does show at ninety-five!
It follows that a good leader knows when to quit, or his family will whisper the appropriate to him. Not this family.
So, for the length of time of the rule of two PMs he sat by the sidelines giving orders, mostly about his and his family‘s enormous hidden holdings! Until one day, maybe one monster gave him the finger and proceeded to ‘lawan taukeh‘!
Malaysians are beginning to see Dr Mahathir for what he truly is. It remains for him to make his destined final boo-boo during this period of his desperate comeback, to seal the rakyat‘s belated judgement of his rule!
God operates in mysterious ways. He disposes while Dr Mahathir only proposes.
UMAR MUKHTAR
Friday, July 3, 2020
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