‘Money Politics’ has ingratiated itself into the fibre of Malaysia’s ruling culture thanks to decades of control by a mafia organisation also known as UMNO.
A confused generation now finds it hard to distinguish between right and wrong or between saying the right thing and doing the wrong thing. The consequences are being played out in court, as jaw-dropping details of theft and kleptocracy have been laid before the public, who are themselves subject to increasingly crushing laws and punishments. They are also playing out in present politics with the tactics of Malaysia’s revanchist coup.
Thanks to exposures like 1MDB an enlightened population booted out UMNO and its cronies at GE14, but noone signs up to a mafia without being ‘blooded’. The gang can’t trust anyone clean. And it was by using this old network that the losers of GE14, all the dirty crooks with their money making schemes reliant on the abuse of power, set about overturning the will of the people the moment they lost control. The fake fakir Hadi Awang even admitted it last week.