Is man zheng (literal translation for the people’s party in Cantonese) turning into mun zheng (mosquito party)?

Gerakan has been losing its sense of direction. Despite claiming to be a Chinese-based multi-racial party within BN, it has lost significant support among the Chinese community due to the perceived frequent kow-tow to UMNO.

Its standing among the Indian community is even worse. Lack of Indian representation in its party leadership, its pre-March 8 silence on issues concerning Indian community (including HINDRAF) and failure to field any Indian candidate in the recent general election count among the reasons.

Ironically, DAP, used to be seen as an opposition Chinese-based party known for championing communal cause, now has the most number of elected representatives from the Indian community. In fact, it has the first Deputy Chief Minister and State Assembly Speaker from that community.

Gerakan has been wiped out from its power base in the Penang state following the March 8 political tsunami. Without any elected representative in Parliament/State Assembly from the state, it does not even get a seat on the opposition bench in the assembly hall.

Without any platform to work on, the party will spend the next few years in political wilderness. Gerakan’s absence in the Cabinet (essentially the main decision-making body in the country) only makes it worse.
The fact that some of its members resorted to putting up road signs in Chinese language to garner publicity is a reflection of their desperation.

Deeply wounded from its miscalcualted ‘marriage’ with PAS in 1999 and failure of a quick rebound in 2004 due to the initial popularity of PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who had just entered the office, DAP has successfully re-engineered itself as a party that promotes competency, accountability and transparency for Malaysians. And the party was duly rewarded with its greatest ever electoral success in the history on March 8, 2008.

Gerakan now faces similar challenges or risks sinking into oblivion.

“Religions can be artificially manipulated to advantage the governing body.” - well said. So, it does not matter what religion the governing body is i.e. Islam, Christianity etc. and they subject to the same. Just look back the human history and you will see it clearly.

You are right !

Religion is yesterday’s world of today’s psychiatry,
some of us are still living in the yesterday’s world. There is no psychiatrist in yesterday world….religion takes the influence.

Wake up, there is no such thing as religious nations, behind the veil is a bunch of nut case overpowering your little brains.

you pray every damn second, cleanse yourself with whatever..you still die and decay into mother earth while being cheated by those who advocate you did wrong and must do right.

HECK i forgot ,,what about the soul where does it go…will it die …nobody knows still …only guess work and imaginations of man mind.

A nation is about people, standing firmly on the ground not floating in a bunch of clouds,…dreaming away…what if and all….dream on.

Today at 08: 37.24 (7 hours ago)
znita07, gua tabik sama lu… probably you are one in a million malay muslim women, with a very different and interesting perspective! unfortunately, not many of them share your views.

I am not a woman.
My nick is just a nick but I am a man.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080417.html

1. Whole Malaysia will be subdivided into certain no. of independent states according to the majority of the people of the same race or religion of the particular location. The minority will be given the option to move to the state where they are the majority there.

2. Why force ourselves to live with people of different thinking etc. and wasted all the energy in solving race & religion issues instead of building the country up!!!

3. Look at Singapore, it is much better off after gaining independent (even though that was not what they wanted in the first place) than remains in Malaysia and may end up worst than Penang if continued to be in Malaysia until today!!!