October 12, 2012
PART 1
PKR: Politics of Principles Vs. Politics of Feudalism
by Nathaniel Tan (10-11-12)@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: Is there an internal tract to reinstate Khalid Ibrahim as Menteri Besar?
There is no doubt which he is underneath attack. After all, piercingly outspoken 
though she competence be, nobody believes which Faekah Husin (right) wields sufficient energy to be anything some-more than a aegis for Khalid certainly not loyal aim material.
Internal governing body makes a most appropriate of us cynical. No a single wants to be fighting sparse wars amongst ourselves just when we mount a most appropriate possibility ever of stealing unchallenged, unchecked UMNO-BN hegemony.
Yet, we have been not regularly permitted a oppulance of selecting a battles, or when as good as where beliefs contingency be defended. Some battles we find on a doorstep whether we like it or not.
Who really chooses a Menteri Besar?
In a early issue of which Sinar Harian front page which suggested which Khalid Ibrahim competence be transposed as Menteri Besar, during slightest 3 fairly prominent PKR leaders were quick to say which this matter could ultimately usually be motionless by a rakyat.
Unfortunately, inside of a Westminster-based domestic system, which is distant from entirely true. In this system, a people can usually elect a celebration into majority, after which a me! mbers of pronounced celebration will afterwards elect its personality as conduct of government.
As a celebration with a most seats in Parliament, a personality of UMNO becomes a personality of a country, as good as a personality of UMNO is comparison usually by UMNO members no a single else. Period.
This is a actuality mostly overlooked by those allergic to domestic appearance when people of element do not stick on domestic parties, afterwards who is left inside of parties to elect leaders of principle?
One consequential premonition of course is which to be Prime Minister, a single has to be an inaugurated Member of Parliament. Once again, it is a celebration which holds comprehensive energy to decide who can run as a claimant for public bureau underneath a celebration flag.
The unfolding is a same during a state level in Selangor. To become Menteri Besar, an particular has to win a seat in a state legislative public as good as afterwards be inaugurated by a infancy of which public to a post.
With a new show of await by PAS as good as DAP, Khalid substantially would not have difficulty on which front especially since a new annoy understandably voiced by both parties per a aforementioned open arrangement of aspiration as good as miss of consensus-seeking inside of Pakatan.
One of a usually reasons a hullabaloo over Pakatan's next claimant for Selangor's Menteri Besar is of regard however, is which there exists a single really simple choice for those in PKR who competence wish to be absolved of Khalid: simply exclude to margin him as a PKR claimant for a state seat (under a pretense, say, of 'saving' him for a ministerial post during a sovereign level).
Should a celebration practice its comprehensive discretion to do so in this manner, afterwards any goal of Khalid returning for a second term as Menteri Besar will be decisively eliminated.
Politics of Feudalism vs Politics of Principles
Is this unfolding expected to come to pass? People infrequently speak about an "UMNO culture" inside of PKR a actuality which used to annoy me, behind in a day. What "culture" do they mean?
Feudalism is substantially a most appropriate word to describe this unfortunately usual underline of comparatively immature democracies. In essence, feudalism describes a relationship in between a duke as good as his underlings a sequence of underlings quarrel for a lord, as good as a duke ensures his sequence of underlings have been good fed.
Central to this relationship is a judgment of unflinching, unquestioning personal faithfulness to a lord; conversely, usually lords who know how to reward faithfulness good tarry prolonged in a feudal game.
We see this pattern obviously inside of UMNO, with any vital personality carrying a specific await bottom of his own without which he would never have risen to any tall bureau of his own.
In medieval days, a underling performs military service for a duke in exchange for land to live off. Today, a currency is basically votes for income as good as power.
Just as a king afterwards would discharge lands as good as their incomes to sure lords, so does a budding apportion today discharge ministries as good as positions providing lords whose faithfulness he needs with a gravy trains as good as equates to to feed a bottom of their pyramid of underlings.
Wanting a bigger square of a pie
It has been pronounced which governing body is a question of who gets what where, when as good as how. Feudalism is mostly about how a duke as good as his underlings can get a bigger square of a pie to a exclusion of any one who does not oath faithfulness to a same duke a diversion of thrones, as it were, where if you have been not with us, afterwards you have been ! opposite us.
In a complement as good as enlightenment such as this, we come to find which blind faithfulness trumps element roughly each time a latter used as good as abused usually to offer a former as as good as when it is expedient.
This explains why so really small about Malaysian governing body is about ideology or policies. Instead, it is dominated by a governing body of personalities.
After all, Muhyiddin Yassin is not opposite Najib Abdul Razak since Muhyiddin is an ultra-Malay; Muhyiddin is an ultra-Malay since he is opposite Najib (let's not get proposed on a even some-more sorrowful ideological as good as egghead emptiness of a bumbling Home Minister).
Adherents to this enlightenment do not find energy to serve a cause, they find causes to serve their pursuit of power.
(Luckily, it would appear which a good proportion of Malaysiakini readers, during a really least, appear cognizant of a dangers of feudalism as good as have expressed a desire to see such enlightenment kept out of PKR, to one side an high regard for a despotic professionalism of Khalid as good as team.)
Tomorrow Part II: Ambition as good as Career Politicians
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