Illusions and Politics.

Of late, the BN camp had use the large turnout of the people to the open houses that the party organize as a barometer that the people have return to their fold. As a personal observation, this may or may not be true but one thing for sure the turnout cannot be a trustworthy indication of public support as many factors could be concluded for the turnout, one being that Malaysians love food, especially free ones( hahahahaha).

Trying to create a parallel between public support of the government and number of people attending such open houses will only create an illusion that will bring not only the government into a state of disillusion, the people too are also beginning to be disillusioned by this and more.

Besides the open houses, the mainstream media had feed us with among others, the tea party with the PM which including to NST attracted more than 1500 people, creating a state of illusion that the PM is popular and is close to the Rakyat.

Well nothing wrong with the invitation I guess, but assuming that the PM is popular and is listening to us will only be known by future events like the General Election or in a smaller scale, by-elections and whether he's truly close to the rakyat will be determine by the subsequent policies he will introduce, whether or not it is people or political friendly. By policies, I mean real policies not mere slogans like 1Malaysia which is not back thus far by a real change in policies governing our country.

Then we have the invitation to write a letter to the PM on racial unity in these country which again might create the illusion that the PM is actually listening to us and value our feed back.

Again, we can only find out whether or not the PM truly treasure our opinions if there's a significant shift in our policy concerning racial unity as one can truly speculate the contents of such letters will surely include the need to reduce or stop completely racial politicking which is an essential element of UMNO poltical amno, the need to curtail the misuse of religion to political mileage which as recent development clearly shows, another UMNO modus operandi when it's Youth Wing organise protests nationwide on the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims to paint itself as the true fighter and protector of Islam and to stop mainstream media such as Utusan to incite racial hatred of the Malays towards their non-Malays countrymen.

Only when the PM actually put a stop towards all these practices or at least try to incorporate some of our more realistic feedback in these practices, then he's listening to us as if not, then the PM action in inviting us to write to him is only a public relations practice aimed at giving the impression that he's listening to us, when in actual fact he's not, deceiving us all the way.

Finally, with the PR coalition in shambles due to infighting, misunderstanding and disrespect towards each other, some UMNO and BN supporters have assumed that the people are tired of these and will automatically go back in supporting the BN, it might be true but not to the extent that they believe as most of opposition supporters are staying put and claim that such infighting is part and parcel of politics and that will not effect their determination to see a more democratic, inclusive,racial blind Malaysia that is govern by corrupt-free, transparent and accountable government as advocated by the opposition if they are elected to govern Malaysia with some state governments run by opposition showing just that.

In the end of the day, what counts is the performance of BN against Pakatan Rakyat, that will be the deciding factor by the people on who to vote for.

In conclusion, it's wise for the government to learn form the Pak Lah administration failure of separating between the reality and the illusion created by Pak Lah political team that used the media to create such an illusion that it tricked the creator of the illusion themselves into believing that their own illusion aimed at deceiving the public was indeed the reality when in fact it was mere news spinning and media propaganda all the way. They woke up in March8 the hard way, they say history repeats, well I'm banking on that adage to be true so that BN and UMNO will wake up from their dreams to shockingly find out that they're in Pakatan Rakyat ruled Malaysia.