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 necessity of policies in Malaysia. We have them in most areas a little competence even contend too most of open as well as private life, from how a government raises as well as spends money, right down to how people should think, action as well as behave.
Policies have been declared objectives as well as a principles or manners to achieve them. A elementary approach to think about them is to brand a certain things which you wish to pierce towards as well as a disastrous ones which you wish to pierce divided from.
They are, upon top of all, about making choices, mostly formidable as well as heatedly contested choices.
In his second inauguration address, for example, United States President Barak Obama laid out a broad template for a policies which he would aspire to 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 vote had a contend in a policies which affect their lives.
It stands to reason which policies have been unequivocally powerful things. If they have been absent or misdirected, they can means untold suffering as well as loss.History's darkest moments were ones of distressing moral disaster all brought to realisation by a policies of people of a day.
It can be officious dangerous to await personalities as well as not their policies. Adolf Hitler as well as his Nazi Party garnered a most series of popular votes in a 1933 German elections. His clever in front of meant he was a! ppointed Chancellor as well as could garner a coalitional await to pass a Enabling Act of 1933 which effectively done him dictator.
Good policies have a genius to lift a republic from a scrap heap; bad ones have a genius to send nations there. In a approved societies which you live in today, you can disagree for as well as choose a policies which best fit our beliefs. We have been not forced to accept those of a dictator or tyrant.
Given a border to which they permeate, organise as well as impact 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 best for my nation as well as for me?But a in front of which most Malaysians find themselves today is greatly opposite in emphasis.
The governing body of policies here plays a apart second fiddle to which of personalities. For this reason, a little explain which governing body in this nation is still "insufficiently mature".
To me, this is mostly rhetorical since personalities have been critical in governing body just about everywhere. After all, policies contingency regularly 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 receive most of a media spotlight as well as publicity. It has spin select for their open relations people to portray them roughly similar to rock stars.
But where a media is allowed to do a job, a inspection of their policies is never far behind. They have been not allowed to get divided with what they contend or promise.
Knowing which a effects of their policies cannot be easily swept underneath a carpet or dark in! a close t, politicians have been thankful to action seriously as well as responsibly, even with no pass opening indicators to hold them accountable.
Without policies, there is no receptive to advice domestic platform, as well as without a domestic platform, there is unequivocally no genuine domestic choice.
Decisions will lend towards to be based upon merely what happens to be expedient as well as win votes at a sold time.Not surprisingly, since policies have been cobbled together ad hoc as well as without correct foresight, suspicion as well as planning, it is inevitable which most policies spin out to be of hollow intent as well as tantamount to half-fulfilled promises.
This is all a worse since it can begin to emanate a credit gap. If a politician's words lose their value, if his firmness as well as credit is questioned, what more does he or she have to offer?
Malaysia is a nation which in a past five decades has demonstrated a worth to a world. Of this, you can be justifiably proud.We deserve not usually a best leaders though a best policies, as well as this is what a upcoming election should be all about.
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