Old vs new comfort zone. Tales by an unknown blogger no 75

1. Friends asked for my opinion about the outcome of the recent dap elections. I told them I am reluctant to do so . I don't want to because of reasons only I know. But when I heard some people say the Lim dynasty is despatched unceremoniously and the DAP is no longer in a comfort zone, I have to say something after all.

2. All these opinions coming from armchair analysts are simply wrong. Admittedly these opinions unconsciously reflect their UMNO dna.

3. In an earlier article,I wrote Lim guan eng must accept the desire for a change of guards. He mustn't see his demotion as it were, as a rejection of his legacy or of Lim kit siang's.

4. The DAP will always be known as the party that LKS built.

5. Hence , the smug and gleeful view of opinions of seeing what happened at the DAP congress as an ungrateful despatch of the lims legacy, is wrong

6. It's political darwinism in action. It's adapt or be irrelevant.

7. On the other hand, parties that refuse to adapt, like UMNO, pas, bersatu will be extinct.

8. The new adaptation I am talking about, is moving away from confrontational and pugilistic politics to one that is willing and reason out with various stakeholders in the country.

9. What comfort zone are we talking about? It's old vs new comfort zone.

10. Parties like UMNO , pas , bersatu and other Malay supremacists, are snug, commodious and reposeful in the old comfort zone.

11. The old comfort zone where racial strife, hostilities and differences are accentuated. The old comfort zone that sees life as a zero sum game.

12. These parties see their relevancy beng affirmed only by way of hostile narratives, by championing xenophobic utterances. 13. In a zero sum world, the Chinese prosper, the Malay suffer. The Chinese get richer, the Malays get poorer. Seems the area in which malays excel is corruption.

14. The old comfort zone is compatible with parties that refuse to adapt. Well, adapt or perish. This old comfort zone is also embellished by UMNO DNAied social media operatives.

15. DAP is moving to the new comfort zone. Where things like ethnic unity matters, good governance matters, law and order matters, shared prosperity matters, education for all matters, eradication of corruption does, political stability is a premium etc

16. The DAP defines the new comfort zone and will not let unadaptive political parties define it.

17. The instrument by which the new comfort zone will be achieved is the newly elected DAP leadership.

18. The changing of the guards shouldn't cause any consternation among grass roots DAP people. Trust the leadership of Anthony loke and the new praetorian guards.

19. Some UMNO people must be daydreaming or have ingested copious amounts of daun ketum. They say DAP will suffer the same fate of MCA. Huh, UMNO finally admits that MCA is but a footnote in it's playbook.

20. Its like kettle calling the pot black or like the Malay says, the tray(dulang) says the nail is chipped, saying about other people, you overdoes it.

21. It's UMNO, which refuses to adapt that will become increasingly irrelevant. And that will not be understood too by the UMNO DNA -ied social media operatives.

22. You know what the DAP changing of guards means and symbolizes? It means the DAP acknowledges the increasing maturity of Malaysian society.

23. It acknowledges that society has matured. Willing to be engaged and listen to rational reasons. It's ready to eschew xenophobic nationalism and xenophobic religiosity.

24. The DAP is ready for it and this is reflected in the new leadership . Willing to engage and reason with Malaysian stakeholders. Get behind the leadership of the sec-gen.