Politics in essence is divisive. Politicking primordially leads to divisiveness among people of the same race and religion. However, to say that ‘if a Malay does not vote for UMNO he hates the Malays’ is too implausible a statement. A Malay who votes for PAS, PKR or DAP - in all probability - still loves his ethnic race. Politics is fundamentally based on thoughts and sets of guidelines espoused by individuals. It could be affiliated to or transcends race and religion but to sponsor the theory that people of a single race or religion should be affiliated to a single political party is utopianism or impractical. In reality, this phenomenon could never come about in almost all societies.
Just recently a senior UMNO leader opinionated that the Malays must subscribe to one party and that is UMNO. Lately the MIC echoed the same sentiment – Indians must be cohesively knitted under a single party that is MIC. A MCA leader ricocheted and huffily beamed that he wants all Chinese to pledge support for MCA, whilst accusing DAP to be a political spoiler. A naive conception of this nature is rather a skewed impression of humankind. Theoretically, this inane prescription by some self-seeking politicians gives a fair-enough impression in the Malaysian context that those in power would want to back a monopolistic fixture in politics.



Fact or fiction: Malays who do not vote for Umno are disloyal



