20/08/2026
We are not writing to comment about this article. We are referring to the Malaysian Chinese community at-large whose response and feedback on DAP's stance in the unity government were said to be disappointing.
One thing in common on the Malaysian Chinese community is, they really do not understand how this country was built and what system it has adopted since 1969 till today. In short, Malaysian Chinese community do not really understand how this country is being run, not by whom but via what kind of system.
Be it MCA and Gerakan (last time they were) or DAP, almost every segment in the Malaysian Chinese community were said to be pretty "disappointed" with the so-called "performance". Some slammed DAP as yet another MCA 2.0 or even Gerakan 2.0, but none of them have even realize that the problem lies not in MCA, Gerakan or DAP. It is the system, framework within the government or administration, as well as the Federal Constitution.
Today, DAP is in the government, only then they had realized the limitation of them to undertake so many kinds of reforms which they planned to during their opposition tenures. Many will ask what? Then response will pour in, "if they are in the government, then they have the powers to do it". This is the only simplest conclusion that the Malaysian Chinese community can think of.
The very big problem actually lies in the system and how this country works today. There is a long way to describe this problem as it goes back from our it was created back in 1969, where nobody should question what has been made and put to implement. It will be seditious to do so if anyone were to question the real "establishment" whom the MCA, Gerakan and DAP couldn't touch or shake, even when they were or now part of it.
The limitation is the how this government machinery works, how the rules, written and unwritten ones were set upon to ensure these status quo remains regardless of which party governs. It has been stemmed in the "machineries" for decades untouched, unquestioned and nobody even dare to talk about.
Furthermore, this system was also strengthened in the framework of the Federal Constitution. It is not a Malaysian constitution for all Malaysians regardless of who they are, their colours, religions or origins. Sectarian divide still lies deep in the root in the very beginning when it was created.
So, no matter how loud one shouts, be it "reformasi", "lawan tetap lawan", "transformasi", "pembaharuan" or "reset", things will run as usual without any real changes, unless there is a Revolution, the Constitutions are Revamped, people changed and race-religion cease to exist in the nationhood's order and finally all of us become Malaysians and we write Malaysian in the "Bangsa" or race coloumns, and there is no more an "Ugama" column in your forms.
The question is, can we ever achieve such vision in the near future? It will be how our new and next generations are being brought up as well as the level of adaptability on the new course that may of us are pursuing today.
So, it is not somebody or a party who has chosen the path of a slow death.
They are hoping that the political narratives over the next 18 months will save them, hitching their whole history and legacy of the party to what happens over...