Negeri 9 has spoken
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NEGERI SEMBILAN HAS SPOKEN. NOW THERE MUST BE THE HUMILITY TO LISTEN
A friendly reply to Mr Vinod Sekhar who wrote this :
"By Vinod Sekhar
There are moments in politics when losing an election is not the greatest danger.
The greatest danger is refusing to understand why you lost it.
Negeri Sembilan has spoken.
And whether we like what it has said or not, democracy demands that we listen.
Pakatan Harapan has lost the state it governed for eight years. BN and PN together have secured 25 of the 36 seats. Anthony Loke lost Chennah. Aminuddin Harun lost Linggi.
These are not small political tremors.
This was an earthquake.
And blaming everything on racial politics would be comforting — but dangerously incomplete.
Yes, race and religion were weaponised.
Yes, Malay-Muslim consolidation played an enormous role.
Yes, some of the rhetoric during this campaign was deeply disturbing.
But leadership means looking beyond what your opponents did to you and asking the much harder question:
What did we do to ourselves?
I have supported Anwar Ibrahim for a very long time.
I supported him when supporting him was neither fashionable nor convenient. It was in fact dangerous.
And I continue to believe that history will recognise something extraordinary about what he has achieved internationally.
Malaysia matters again.
We are respected again.
Our Prime Minister can sit with Washington, Beijing, Delhi, the Gulf, Europe and our ASEAN neighbours and Malaysia is taken seriously.
Economically, despite extraordinary global turbulence, Malaysia remains remarkably resilient.
That is not propaganda. The numbers tell us so.
But elections are not won in Washington.
They are not won in Beijing.
They are not won in Davos.
They are won in Seremban, Jempol, Tampin, Port Dickson and thousands of homes, coffee shops, kampungs and flats where Malaysians ask a much simpler question:
Is my life getting better?
And perhaps even more importantly:
Do these people understand me?
That is where this government has a problem.
The Captain Takes Responsibility
I have spent my life building businesses. Succeeding often and failing sometimes.
One thing you learn very quickly is that nobody outside your organisation cares about your organisational chart.
If the sales director fails, the CEO gets blamed.
If the communications department fails, the CEO gets blamed.
If somebody representing your company insults your customers, nobody says, “Don’t blame the chairman, it wasn’t his department.”
They blame the company.
Politics is exactly the same.
Anwar Ibrahim is the captain of this team.
Anthony Loke is the captain of DAP.
And when members of their teams repeatedly say or do things which alienate Malaysians, eventually the public holds the captains responsible.
That may sometimes be unfair.
But leadership has never been about fairness.
It is about responsibility.
And there have been people within DAP whose words and actions have made Anthony Loke’s job extraordinarily difficult.
Personalities such as Nga Kor Ming and Tony Pua have, at different times, generated controversies that opponents have been delighted to amplify.
Whether every criticism against them is justified is almost beside the point.
Politics is perception.
When statements are perceived as arrogant, insensitive towards Malay institutions or dismissive of Malay anxieties, the damage travels far beyond the person making them.
Every provocative sentence becomes another bullet handed willingly to opponents.
And eventually even a moderate leader such as Anthony Loke carries the wounds.
His defeat should therefore worry DAP profoundly.
Not because Anthony is the problem.
Quite the opposite.
Because if Anthony Loke can lose, DAP must understand how serious the problem has become.
And Then There Are The Indians.
There is another uncomfortable conversation that must finally happen.
The Indian community, my community, feels abandoned.
Not all Indians. Not everywhere.
But enough.
For decades Malaysian Indians have been promised transformation."
Election after election they have been told:
Support us now and things will change tomorrow.
Tomorrow keeps moving.
The community gave enormous support to Pakatan Harapan and to Anwar Ibrahim.
Today many Indians simply don’t believe anybody anymore. They feel betrayed.
That is politically dangerous.
Because anger brings people to the ballot box.
Disillusionment keeps them at home.
And something similar is happening among sections of the Chinese electorate.
That may be one of the most important lessons from Johor and Negeri Sembilan.
People do not necessarily have to cross the road and vote for your opponent to defeat you.
Sometimes they simply stop crossing the road to vote for you.
Political apathy can be more devastating than political opposition.
Do Not Blame The Voters
This is where governments so often make their greatest mistake.
They explain election defeats by explaining why voters were wrong.
They were manipulated.
They believed misinformation.
They succumbed to racial politics.
They didn’t understand the economy.
Perhaps some did.
It doesn’t matter.
Never blame your customer for not buying your product.
Understand why they didn’t buy it.
Then make it better.
The Malaysian electorate has sent a message.
Listen to it.
There is still time.
The Government Has Achieved More Than Malaysians Realise
This is perhaps the greatest irony.
Anwar’s government has actually achieved a great deal.
Malaysia’s economy expanded 5.4% in the first quarter of this year.
International institutions have repeatedly described our economy as resilient despite global uncertainty.
Investment confidence has strengthened.
Malaysia’s diplomatic standing is probably stronger today than it has been for many years.
And all of this has happened while the world has been hit by circumstances nobody sitting in Putrajaya could reasonably have planned for.
Wars and instability in the Middle East have disrupted energy markets.
American tariffs have disrupted global trade.
Supply chains are being reorganised.
Countries everywhere are struggling to navigate an economic landscape that seems to change every few months.
Malaysia has actually navigated this remarkably well.
But here is the political reality:
If people cannot feel your success, eventually they stop believing your statistics.
That is not necessarily a failure of policy.
It is a failure of transmission.
And it is certainly a failure of communication.
This government has not communicated its achievements well enough.
It has too often communicated policy rather than purpose.
Numbers rather than dreams.
Programmes rather than possibilities.
People need to understand not merely what government is doing.
They need to understand where we are going.
Reset. Reboot. Relaunch.
I have always believed something very simple in business:
Never give up on a good idea.
Remould it.
Redirect it.
Reboot it.
Relaunch it.
Malaysia MADANI is still a good idea.
A Malaysia built upon dignity, compassion, justice, opportunity and mutual respect is worth fighting for.
But sometimes even good ideas require new people to execute them.
That means Anwar must now look honestly at the team around him.
Not defensively.
Not emotionally.
Honstly.
Who is helping?
Who is hurting?
Who understands ordinary Malaysians?
Who is communicating?
Who is delivering?
Who has personal political agenda's that don't fall in line with what the nation needs now.
And who has forgotten that holding office is a privilege rather than an entitlement?
There must be consequences for arrogance.
There must be accountability for incompetence.
There must be urgency about the Indian community. They deserve better. The deserve much more. Now, not tomorrow.
There must be genuine engagement with Malay concerns without surrendering Malaysia’s multiracial soul. They still make up 80% of the poor- and it must be addressed.
There must be renewed engagement with Chinese Malaysians who increasingly wonder whether their votes are simply taken for granted.
And above everything else, there must be humility.
Not manufactured humility.
Real humility.
The kind that says:
We heard you.
We got some things wrong.
We will fix them.
That would not make the Prime Minister weaker.
It would make him stronger.
Malaysia Needs Hope Again
Politics ultimately isn’t about politicians.
It is about whether people believe tomorrow can be better than today.
That is what worries me most about these results.
Not BN. Not PN. Not PH. Not DAP.
Apathy.
Because anger still contains hope.
You become angry because you believe something can change.
Cynicism is different.
Cynicism says nothing will change.
And after cynicism comes something even more dangerous.
Indifference.
People stop voting. Stop believing. Stop dreaming.
They simply get on with their lives and expect nothing from their country.
That would be a tragedy.
Malaysia is too extraordinary a country for that.
We have everything required to become one of the great success stories of this century.
Geography.
Resources.
Infrastructure.
Talent.
Diversity.
A strategic position between East and West that other countries would give almost anything to possess.
And today we have a Prime Minister whose international standing gives Malaysia an extraordinary opportunity. We've not had that for a long while.
But international respect must now be translated into domestic confidence.
Economic growth must become household confidence.
Investment announcements must become jobs and opportunity.
Policy must become reality.
And leadership must become inspiration.
Negeri Sembilan was not the end of something.
It can be the beginning.
But only if those in power have the courage to hear what the people have just told them.
So don’t panic.
Don’t sulk.
Don’t blame the electorate.
And certainly don’t retreat into political bubbles and echo chambers where everybody tells each other that everything is fine.
It isn’t.
Listen.
Learn.
Reset the team.
Deliver.
Then reboot.
Because Malaysia needs to believe again.
We need to dream again.
We need to feel that wonderful, slightly irrational thing that has driven every great nation forward:
Hope.
And leadership is ultimately about giving people a reason to hope.
The people of Negeri Sembilan have delivered their message.
The question now is whether Putrajaya has the humility — and the courage — to hear it.
I believe it can. And more importantly, for Malaysia’s sake, I believe it must.
Vinod Sekhar
MMJ RESPONSE
Dear Mr Vinod Sekhar,
Thank you for your feelgood write up. In Malaysia the Malays’ problem is not the Chinese or Indians ; the Chinese’ and Indians’ problem are not the Malays. God place us here in this land and as humans we have to live together.
Our problem and indeed the world’s problem began a long, long time ago when a people decided to make a living out of usury. An act prohibited by almost all religions, and indeed declared war on in Islam by God and His Prophet.
In the Quran - Surah AlBaqarah.
• Verse 278: "O you who have believed, fear Allāh and give up what remains [due to you] of interest, if you should be believers."
• Verse 279: "And if you do not, then be informed of a war [against you] from Allāh and His Messenger. But if you repent, you may have your principal — [thus] you do no wrong, nor are you wronged." [1]
Why you may ask?
Lets explore the path of usury in our world. Not in a manner as described in our education system, as that system too has been controlled and manipulated by the creators of the monetary system.
It began as early as Prophet Isa a.s. kicking out the usury practitioners from Baitul Maqdis.
In the more modern times the usury masters sailed to the Americas with their illicit wealth built on usury. In America they continued their illicit usurious practises and soon controlled the wealth of America, and indeed controlled the political leaders of America by funding both Presidential Candidates, and funding virtually the whole of Congress and the Senate.
To cap their control of America and the world, they set up and privately own the Central Bank of America, the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve of America is privately owned by the families of Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan, Warburg and Kohn Leub.
In 1944, at Bretton Woods, the world agreed to adopt the US dollar as the international currency; the dollar was backed by gold, while other nations' currencies were pegged to the dollar.
Strictly speaking, America was not supposed to print US dollars in excess of its gold reserves.
However, due to the high global demand for the US dollar—driven by exports, imports, tourism, education, and the like—there was a massive worldwide need for the currency.
This allowed America to print US dollars at will, largely without anyone noticing.
They buy our palm oil etc, and indeed the world’s produce by merely printing USD. They can spend freely and pay by creating Debt Notes called US Treasury, the world will buy. So America’s free spending supported by the world who somehow sees the naked emperor as fully clothed!
To ensure they control the world they controlled the Bank of International Settlements of Basel Switzerland where the central banks of the world comes twice a year to receive policies created and favoured by Bank of International Settlements to be executed in each nation. (By the way in 1897, Basel was also the birthplace of the World’s Zionist Organisation.)
This is our Problem Mr Vinod Sekhar.
Banks throughout the world creates 95% of their nation’s money out of thin air, and lend in the form of numbers. Not paper notes and coins, that, forming 5% of the nation’s money is created by each nation’s central bank. Being able to create the nation’s money is no small matter. It is a powerful Sovereign right that has been given to banks.
(Please visit website of Movement for Monetary Justice, Malaysia, and the Website of International Movement for Money Reform to understand this, and creation of money by Banks is confirmed by Bank of England and the Central Bank of Europe.)
Given the right to create money the Banks must be responsible enough to focus the money, the lending, the financing, to the real economy, to the businesses to create economic output and employment.
But no they don’t do that, they are too greedy enriching themselves to care about the nation. 70% of their total loans are to personal loans and personal sector, that creates permanent inflation suffered most by the poor, rocketing house prices, poor getting poorer and rich getting richer that tears the nation.
Of the 30% that goes to the real economy only 16% to the SME sector (RM50m and below sales) which creates 70% of Malaysia’s jobs, leading to youths and graduates unemployment and underemployment, stunted wages for them and their parents.
So you see Mr Vinod, these are the main issues for any govt, of Party A, B, C, D or E. It really does not matter which party it is, that is ruling, if they don’t understand this! All the semangat and the talk any party leader can give means zilch if they don’t comprehend what we are talking about here
The least corrupt govt ever, the most internationally respected PM ever, the most popular govt with any race or with all races will still leave economic bullying and intense hardships to their people, with this system unchanged.
Only traditional economists celebrate a 5% increase in GDP Mr Vinod; you and I we celebrate, if it is accompanied by a fairer distribution of wealth. Why do we celebrate when the wealthy gets richer and richer. Our concern is poor Uncle Muthu and family, poor Madam Yap and family, and poor Haji Ishak and family, and struggling Meknah and her children in Kampung Pinggir Hutan.
They only know how to talk Mr Vinod, They know zilch about the problem, and how to solve them. And you and I, we cannot say anything because they know everything!
Thank you for your write up Mr Vinod, at least it leaves a feel good feeling.
Meanwhile a Monetary Reform fight in another country
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