COMMENT | Mother of all elections, it is not!

COMMENT | For all the hype that the 15th general election (GE15) would be “the mother of all elections”, the race may simply come down to old-fashioned retail politics.

It’s not like our political parties are going into the fray for the purpose of good versus evil, right versus wrong, human dignity and freedom against tyranny and oppression.

From a bystander’s point of view, GE15 would just be about superficial images of self-important politicians and their high hopes of getting the voters to think they would be in the wrong line if they voted for any opposing party.

If only the politicians know - maybe they do but pretend they don’t - the people’s greatest strengths are the very characteristics political parties want to hide - the rakyat’s intellect, their quick thinking and their ingenuity.

With the advent of the Undi18 Act, young voters are said to be...