Penduduk Malaysia mudah teruja oleh pilihan raya kecil atau besar kerana politik sudah menjadi budaya bagi kebanyakan orang, dan profesion bagi sesetengah orang. Tidak semua rakyat memahami pilihan raya sebagai satu proses demokrasi bagi memilih pemimpin yang amanah untuk berkorban memperjuangkan kesejahteraan rakyat dan negara. Orang lebih tertarik pada peristiwa perdebatan kempen, hujah menjatuhkan lawan, dan lebih-lebih lagi apabila ada tanda-tanda kemungkinan calon pembangkang menewaskan calon parti kerajaan.
Baharuddin ZainalKuala Lumpur had a certain something… There was a sense of freedom perhaps, of anarchy even, that Singapore so sorely lacked. Perhaps it was the lack of deference to authority, the physical space, the ability to take a step back and enjoy a moment of quite that lent Kuala Lumpur its atmosphere. Singaporeans were always adding to the list of reasons each one kept to hand, in case they met a Malaysian, of why it was so much better on the island than the peninsula. They ranged from law and order to cleanliness, from clean government to good schools, and always ended on the strength of the Singaporean economy. But in the end, the Malaysian would nod as if to agree to the points made – and then shrug to indicate that they probably wouldn’t trade passports, not really. And if pressed for a reason they would fall back on that old chestnut which somehow seemed to capture everything that was wrong about Singapore – but your government bans chewing gum. The nanny state and the police state all rolled into one.
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