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IN SELANGOR, WITH 4 DAYS TO GO:

It is difficult to see how political party Amanah, perceived by the malays as a Dap proxy can win any of the 8 seats it is contesting (except perhaps in pandan indah). Expect this as PHs gift to PN.

It is also improbable that Umno can win in any of the 12 seats it is vying for as the malay voters (that support najib, reject zahid, dap and anwar) there will vote PN.

The 15 Dap seats are state constituencies with chinese majority voters. The chinese see Dap as a bad luck ghost and 'suey' to their businesses. All lost money daily. Having voted them twice in 2018 and 2022, most of the chinese are expected to refrain from voting.

The rest of the 21 seats contested by Pkr will be swarmed with PN Bersatu elegant, efficient and impactful election machinery supported by the umno renegades, mca, gerakan and mic indians. Appeal for votes from house to house starts tommorow. Expect PN to secure 15 seats here.

PH need to be more effective this last four days to have a chance at defending Selangor.

Lower voter turnout and much more.

Happy voting today for the early voters😍

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The bad news is if Anwar loses, he will still not stop talking glibly and reduce his bullock manure excessively.

If there's anyone who gets infatuated hearing Anwar talk, it is Anwar himself.

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Voting in the name of democracy is a deception and a lie that the majority of voters can pick a people's representative to fight for the people's interest. Witness what democracy is doing in USA in reality. 1 % of the capitalists who control the government in both houses of congress is the puppet master who tells the US president what to do. Did the masses of the US population decided to go the wars in Iran, Iraq Afghanistan ,Yeman and Syria all these wars initiated by the US military complex to sell weapons as a death merchant? The voters in the US are just pawns for the elites to milk the people's fruits of labour to enrich themselves. All these last 50 years all the money in the financial system has been mobilized to kill innocent people in the middle eastern countries involved in war, instead of spending for nation building infrastructures such as roads, bridges, school and rebuild aged buildings and airports all across American.

Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people's knowledge of the world extends as far as sports, sitcom, reality shows and celebrity gossip, democracy become a very dangerous idea. Until people are properly educated and informed, instead of indoctrinated to be ignorant mindless consumers, democracy is nothing more than a clever tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the rest of us. Gavin Nascimento

The greatest good to safeguard democracy is to educated the voters on the two surviving living skills which are never taught in formal education. To learn and to reason. Beautifully and meticulously expressed by these two quotations.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Sir William Drummond (26 Sept 1769-29 March 1828)

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

― Alvin Toffler (4 Oct 1928- 27 June 2016)

If there are 1500 intelligent, well informed voters turning up to vote according to wisdom and fact, back up with reasons, on a candidate of their choice, but there are another 10,000 ignorant, illiterate, simple minded voters without any sophistication about politics, education about how democracy works and because of some bribery cash dispenses during campaigning period to grease the palms of this group of voters and they all voted for the rich candidate who has unlimited campaigning fund to swing the voting process by corruption, what kind of democracy are we talking about? The so call talk about your vote is sacred ?

If the candidate is incompetent and narcissistic and has no heart for public services, but seeking political office to enrich himself, all the votes in favour of him is democracy at its worse.

To change an established method to select a candidate to represent a community for better service is almost impossible as in this mould of democracy. As is realistically expressed by:

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”

― Niccolò Machiavelli

A democratic system does not work well to select a competent and capable leader due to a collapsing education system that dulls the masses’ thinking and destroy the power of reasoning is a platform to motivate the rich and well connected to stay in power to perpetual their continuously reign for their own benefits. Voting or abstaining from voting in the long term makes little difference to the quality of those who stay in office.

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People vote based on habits culture religion. In malaysia, 70% of them has that same unifying factor. If the leader are able to unite them, then theres stability.

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