Rebuild Malaysia from within


WHEN I give talks to Malaysians on society and politics, I always bring up this tagline: Our country, our fault, our responsibility. I then invite Malaysians to rebuild this country ourselves without expecting too much from the elected representatives.

After the miracle of GE14, Malaysians settled into a comfort zone of hoping for change through their elected representatives. There were indeed some changes but not enough serious structural ones.

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