
8 March 2008: The roti canai politics of Reformasi took the nation by storm. Juggernaut BN castles and bastions were torn down by the winds of change, fuelled by a perception of righteous inevitability of people’s tsunamic power. Five states felled to Pakatan Rakyat, sapping the power and the confidence of those flagging blue, white and yellow. That was then.
Defecting grasshoppers, self-inflicting hemorrhage, religious wording, fledgling political platform, ideology differences and lack of governance discipline dusted the sight of PR. Against the green, red and blue bearers, an afterhype desert storm has been brewing and swirling back to a political future of 1 Malaysia. BN Reformers reforming Reformasi? And an aging Anwar is back with Sodomy sequel in court, not Putrajaya. As if echoing “I’ll be back”, the once-wounded Barisan National’s nasi lemak politics of slogans is back on the kopitium tables.
What went wrong? What went right? What is happening? What dreams may come? “What next?” asked Lim Kit Siang.
Questions. Questions. Questions.