Malay political unity through a political party, good or bad?

It's unavoidable if you're Malay, you will hear the sigh of other Malays, feeling distraught due to the lack of unity among Malay political parties. You will hear in the the many open houses, hear it from the taxi man, read about it from comments in cyberspace. Even intellectuals and religous leaders are calling for it. It's everywhere.

 It's like the ultimate yearning of the Malay race is for there to be unity among the political parties representing them. That once that is achieved, the Malays will not be in harm's way and will progress by leaps and bounds. The path to political unity for the Malays is akin to achieving panacea.

I am the one of the few contrarian that feels otherwise. The reason being is simple, just like in the field of economics, a monopoly tends to be bad for consumers as the consumers are forced to accept the offering of that monopoly, regardless of their satisfaction. The consumers are powerless as they cannot show their dissatisfaction by buying products or services from a competitor as they are no viable ones. So the consumers will continue to suffer at the hands of the firm that holds the monopoly.

Similarly, in politics, political monopoly can happen and it is bad for voters. Imagine if Malays are only represented by UMNO, there are no PAS, PKR or  others. The Malays will have to accept whatever UMNO is offering to them as there are no viable alternative for them( most Malays won't vote for DAP). The Malays cant show their displeasure on poor polices by UMNO, the Malays can't protest poor behaviour by UMNO leaders. The Malays can't use other methods to develop themselves. Only the UMNO method for the Malays. So we pray to Allah S.W.T that UMNO will always come up with good policies, that UMNO leaders will always be on their best behaviour and UMNO method to develop the Malays is the best there is.

Unfortunately, as with what can be seen happening to UMNO today, that is not the case.
As a matter of fact, the Malays 100% reliance on UMNO over the years has brought the Malays into a deep hole where they have to condone UMNO many misgivings like corruption, abuse of power, cronyism and so on. Most of the misgivings will harm the progress of the Malays.

 A corrupt UMNO means that the Malays will be led by incompetent leaders as they are leaders not because of their merit rather because of corruption culture prevalent in UMNO. Thus the party will less be able to help the Malays and develop the nation. Therefore to safeguard the Malays, there must be a viable alternative to UMNO as whenever UMNO falls, they won't bring the entire Malay population with them.

The roots to this faulty belief that for Malays to be strong, they must unite other UMNO came from the fight against Malayan Union. As the Malays then discard their parochial identity and embrace the Malay identity, they manage to pressure the British to withdraw the Malayan Union system.

 It worked then because UMNO is not the government then, rather they are fighting against a very powerful colonial government. They are not doing the abuses nor are they giving any policy offerings then. UMNO is offering the viable alternative to Malays then, they are offering a better alternative to the colonial government Malayan Union system that will not benefit the Malays.So whose is offering an alternative to the Malays now? I believe it's PAS and PKR.

 The Malays then fought for an alternative to the unjust Malayan Union system, will the Malays now fight against the unjust government policies that encourages cronyism, that is leading to a bigger divide between the haves and the haves not, policies that are exclusive for UMNO putras instead of society as a whole. The Malays fought against injustice then, will they fight against injustice now?

So I hope that the Malays will not be trapped into following an outdated thinking outside of the context to the challenges that we are facing now. It is an accepted fact that for democracy to mature, competition among political parties is a prerequisite. A competitive political competition will mean that political parties will have to compete on who can serve Malays best, in order to get our votes.

Only that way, the political parties will be forced to improve themselves, thus improving their services to us Malays, thus leading to an improvement to the condition of the Malays in this country. That is better than political domination of the Malays by a single party. Make them improve their service to us, than vote the best. That is the way to go.