February 20, 2013
Best Leaders as well as Best Policies for Malaysia
by Steven Wong (02-19-13) |steve@isis.org.my
THERE seems to be no shortage of policies in Malaysia. We have them in most areas some might even contend too most of open as well as private life, from how a supervision raises as well as spends money, right down to how people should think, action as well as behave.
Policies have been spoken objectives as well as a principles or rules to achieve them. A elementary way to consider about them is to identify a positive things which you wish to pierce towards as well as a negative ones which you wish to pierce away from.
They are, above all, about creation choices, often difficult as well as heatedly contested choices.
In his second coronation address, for example, United States President Barak Obama laid out a broad template for a policies which he would pursue in his final term.
Not each American is a voter as well as not each voter is a Democrat. All those who did, however, would know his views as well as through their opinion had a contend in a policies which start their lives.
It stands to reason which policies have been unequivocally powerful things. If they have been absent or misdirected, they can means infinite suffering as well as loss.History's darkest moments were ones of terrible moral failure all brought to realization by a policies of people of a day.
It can be downright dangerous to support personalities as well as not their policies. Adolf Hitler as well as his Nazi Party garnered a most number of popular votes in a 1933 German elections. His strong position meant h! e was ap pointed Chancellor as well as could garner a coalitional support to pass a Enabling Act of 1933 which effectively made him dictator.
Good policies have a genius to lift a nation from a scrap heap; bad ones have a genius to send nations there. In a democratic societies which you live in today, you can argue for as well as select a policies which most appropriate fit our beliefs. We have been not forced to accept those of a dictator or tyrant.
Given a extent to which they permeate, organize as well as stroke our lives, one would have suspicion which policies would be closely studied, discussed as well as heatedly contested in this country.
The fundamental subject should be all a time asked: What is most appropriate for my nation as well as for me?But a position which most Malaysians find themselves currently is greatly different in emphasis.
The governing body of policies here plays a distant second fiddle to which of personalities. For this reason, some claim which governing body in this nation is still "insufficiently mature".
To me, this is mostly controversial since personalities have been important in governing body just about everywhere. After all, policies must always be embodied in a person, a organisation of persons or else invested in a domestic party.
To be sure, these days it is leaders who embrace most of a media spotlight as well as publicity. It has become fashionable for their open family people to portray them roughly like rock stars.
But where a media is authorised to do its job, a scrutiny of their policies is never distant behind. They have been not authorised to get away with what they contend or promise.
Knowing which a goods of their policies cannot be easily swept under! a carpe t or dark in a closet, politicians have been thankful to action seriously as well as responsibly, even with no pass performance indicators to reason them accountable.
Without policies, there is no receptive to advice domestic platform, as well as but a domestic platform, there is unequivocally no real domestic choice.
Decisions will tend to be formed on merely what happens to be judicious as well as win votes at a sold time.Not surprisingly, since policies have been cobbled together ad hoc as well as but proper foresight, suspicion as well as planning, it is inevitable which most policies turn out to be of vale intent as well as tantamount to half-fulfilled promises.
This is all a worse since it can start to emanate a credibility gap. If a politician's words remove their value, if his firmness as well as credibility is questioned, what some-more does he or she have to offer?
Malaysia is a nation which in a past 5 decades has demonstrated its worth to a world. Of this, you can be justifiably proud.We deserve not only a most appropriate leaders but a most appropriate policies, as well as this is what a arriving choosing should be all about.
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