The inanity is that they do get away with it. This is the the difference between the educated and independent minded versus traditional dependent groups.

For the longest time, I could never understand why my parents keep insisting on some of their point of views even though I have explained it to them again and again. My parents did not have much formal education but self-taught themselves. When I reached adulthood knowing how self-reliant my parents were, I thought it would be easy to discuss issues with them. As it turned out, it was not. They had never read anything other than mainstream paper and media. They talked much with neighbours and friends, people they do business with. Even though they know newspaper did not tell the truth, they really never had a comprehension how the extend they were being lied to. They were influenced by their friends, relatives and neighbours and even those influence had caveats i.e., it if involved painful change, then the more friends and relatives they need to hear from.

The truth is at any instance or issue, only 20% of us can have truly independent opinion, typically less. Look at the 1M against Merdeka Tower. Supposedly there are over 6m facebook users in Malaysia. Assuming 50% will not go against BN, that still leaves 2/3 million facebook users. Yet the ones that signed up is only 10%. Yes. The ones that don’t sign up may still vote against it but it goes to the fact that many decision influence voters and that at any instant, you can’t rely on more than 20% of the vote. Each influence overlaps so its marginally harder for each mistep to influence voters especially the more disconnected they are from the big fundamental issues. PKFZ have make a million voter vote against BN but the Merdeka tower is not going to add 1million voter to the opposition. And the racism and conflict is going to add even less.

THAT is how BN gets away with it. Every voters gets harder and harder to win over. The main fundamental driver of change is simply young voters not all these things they do wrong. If you have a PKFZ, CSL sex scandal, you need billion dollar losses of another project and worst sex scandal will still not match the effect of the original. Its what I called the law of declining voter change.

Its why I say past result for PR is no indication of future change. Future change will only get less if nothing new comes in and unfortunately for PR, what is new is often negated by its own failures/mistep.

PR simply is unable to take Putrajaya if it keep relying on the same things and the same people of the past. Like it or not, it got to come with more than what they have in the past – much, much more in fact.