For PRU15, we have everything, but HOPE!

Selamat Pagi Malaysia.

We all want to live a better life. We want ethical and moral leaders, and we want the rule of law to prevail. If we can live a better life elsewhere, and we can leave for that better place, we leave. If we cannot leave, we must manage to the best of our abilities, and when we can, we work for change to happen.

Change is happening in Malaysia.

Najib and Rosmah are now convicted felons. One is already in jail, and the other will soon follow. The political future of those among the Umno court cluster is over. The other corrupt politicians and everyone else complicit in the corruption who have yet to be arrested and charged for their misdeeds are running around the corridors of power like headless chickens.

But there is still confusion among us.

We have Zaid Ibrahim telling us that Najib has not been given a fair trial. We have the president of Umno urging the three million Umno members to ask Dollah to pardon Najib. Among the Opposition, there is confusion and no clarity of purpose or intent as PRU15 nears. A Judiciary that is merely doing its duty by making decisions without fear or favor are hailed as heroes. Police reports of every description are being made daily, and it makes you wonder if the Police would have any time to do anything else! And seven decades of Umno rule has created an enormous accumulation of vested interests that surely want the present political status quo of money politics, corruption, and greed to remain to protect their interests.

Change seems impossible, but this much we all now know.

History has taught us that Umno can be beaten at the polls. We know the opposition can win a general election. We now know that the ex-prime minister is not above the law. We know the royals are not above the law - sultans have settled with plaintiffs rather than be tried in their special courts, and we know that Kings have abdicated when faced with ethical and moral censure. Race and religion still dominate all things Malaysians, but they no longer extend their pervasive tentacles with impunity. The Muftis, Jakim, and other religious entities are being increasingly questioned about the things they do in the name of Islam. Hindu and Chinese single mothers do get custody of their children from their Muslim spouses. And the halal integrity, corruption, and questionable ethics and morality within Jakim that is impacting adversely upon Malaysian society and its politics are out in the open and Jakim is taken to task for these failings.

Change in Malaysia, is a work in progress, but what I have yet to see in Malaysia today is HOPE!

The HOPE that Pakatan Harapan gave to all of us going into PRU14 - the HOPE that change is possible.

HOPE was there at PRU14 because our leaders instilled in us that fundamental belief - that we the rakyat can be the agent for change. That we the rakyat, can decide our own destiny. There was nothing tangible in the early days going into PRU15 to make us think that change was possible because HOPE is not tangible....it is merely an idea.... an idea once planted in our consciousness can grow and make us believe anything is possible. An idea, whose time has come, cannot be stopped.

Someone must give Malaysian HOPE that PRU15 will be different. Someone must give Malaysian HOPE that good will again prevails over evil, as it did in PRU14.

Who will give us that HOPE?