It has been a while since I got the 'hilarious' thought of how to contribute towards making Pakatan Rakyat (People's Pact) successful of becoming a legitimate Govt of the day in 2018's general election (GE14) following their failure in recent GE13.
How awesome if all wanting for change contribute in their own way, other than their own vote. When all do their bit, the impact can be phenomenal. It all start from their very own home to extended family members.
A piece of broomstick (lidi) can do nothing but when it becomes a broom, lots of rubbish can be swept off.
Having read disappointing reports such as relating to custodial death, provocative acts that can escalate racial tension, continuance of 'dirty tactics' in elections, 'no serious attention' to deal with corruption that has plagued the country, the denial syndrome or giving excuses & claims to defend Govt's 'misdeeds', the pathetic flattery politicians, and the so-called Transformation leaders who are not 'Transforming' after-all, had enhanced my enthusiasm to formulate ideas that could help PR in becoming a Govt, come 2018.
But what ideas a 'small' man like me can offer?
With all the humbleness, I tried to visualize what could be the fundamentals towards achieving the above-said objective.
For PR, one thing is obvious - as they lead the people, they need first and foremost to lead by example (leadership by example) and at the same time making it clear to people particularly voters, what their values are.
Leadership is an 'art' where it is vital for them to find their own 'path' to it.
They must consistently excel in thoughts and actions as any inconsistency in their professed values and behaviors will soon be detected by the people (especially voters) and that can cause damage to their integrity, not to mention their effectiveness.
It is no doubt, a great challenge as it involves every leaders in the pact consisting of more than one political parties. Agreeing and streamlining the differing political and non-political ideologies can be a challenging task.
To succeed requires a lot more than brainpower and opportunity. It also requires an awesome positive mental attitude (PMA) riveted with great deal of humbleness.
It is important that they ( PR leaders) knowing and understanding - their true potential, not looking back, never give up, end the complaining, focus, right attitude, accept responsibility and raising standard, to mention some.
National Front (BN) has demonstrated their leadership skills and style for the past 50 over years. It is important to identify their weaknesses and turn it to becoming PR's strength.
By now, after being denied a two-third majority in two consecutive general elections, BN must have realized the needs to continuously strengthening their party.
They have a struggle far from being over. The struggle to continuously remain in power and that the last two general elections must have been painful lessons that they would not take it lightly.
To substantiate that, Datuk Najib has urged Umno delegates to the coming party elections to back leaders not only endorsed by the party but more importantly, by the people at large (Nigel Aw, Malaysiakini July 26, 2013), a sign BN is taking step to prioritize in winning the people (voters).
Perhaps, Datuk Najib now realized that not all of his party leaders are accepted by rakyat (people).
For instance, Umno's Women chief Sharizat Jalil was probably dropped from contesting as a candidate in 13th general election following the controversies over NFC.
Taking into account the call by Datuk Najib, it will be interesting to follow if she will get his endorsement to defend the Women Wing's top post.
Now, many are waiting to see Umno's new supreme council members and it's interesting to find out whether incumbent members will be retained or new blood & faces will replace them.
There were opinions that the 13th general elections would have been PR's only best opportunity to take over power when the signal of 'wind of change' was felt and PR could have been successful if not due to Sabah & Sarawak factor.
Many opined, PR's failure will give BN the 5 years time frame to pull all resources in their bid to be in shape.
Just like in 1999 when they gave away a total of 45 seats to then Alternative Front but recovered in the following general election (2004) with an awesome victory leaving the opposition with a mere 12 parliamentary seats.
With all the advantages to their favor, it is not impossible for situation as in 2004 to recur. With 'cue' in their hands, they could 'snook' (Snooker language) PR in anyway they want.
In politics, there are simply some phrases that you never, ever want to say out loud.
The craze for power can make politician gleefully disregards all rules and regulations let alone the law to win the battle.
With organized efforts and means they could methodically decimated their opponents.
Top leaderships of PR must always remind and caution down-line leaders not to be complacent and recklessly take ownership of support received in GE13.
People have lots of different opinions especially when changes are taking place. Some will say OK, some will say not OK and there will always be some in-between.
But if changes are made systematically and effectively by the ruling party, it can change the people, particularly voters.
Only party die-hard will not so much be affected.
Thus, working the grassroots is always a vital component in PR's continuous campaign and keeping consistently linked with the grassroots movement.
Most organisation if not all, and certainly every political party contains power groupings and PR is no exception.
Though by norms parties that remain in office for too long become subject to factionalism, it is important to monitor at an early stage and before becoming Govt of the day. There are already indications factionalism exist in PR component parties.
Group conflicts may become serious and that will only weaken team work.
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