Mahathir destroyed the country for generations, not just
during his Premiership. It will take another generation or two to
reverse his education policy, even if they were to try to do it. It will
take generations to get rid of the deep-seated corruption within the
establishment. It will take decades to attract back the talents that he
drove away during his premiership, mostly to the benefit of Singapore,
especially the Chinese. The incentives for doing that are just not there
for those who wants to return to serve the country,
I would not
just blame Mahathir alone. It was already a festering disease of
corruption within the racially endowed ruling establishment even before
he came to power, but he was the one that made it worse with his never
ending New Economic Policy that basically alienated the Chinese and
Indians. Most of these non-Malay Malaysian talents were later to become
of great benefit contributing to Singapore, people like Goh Keng Swee
and Hon Sui Sen among others.
In Malaysia, Goh and Hon would
never have been given the chance to rise in positions to serve the
Malaysian Government. The pro-Malay establishment would never allow
that. Meritocracy never had a chance in Malaysian politics, only
cronyism and racial factors matter.
It is really ironic that
Malaysia, with all the natural resources became a pale shadow of its
southern neighbor that was to arouse deep jealousy and spiteful behavior
from Mahathir and his cronies. Now, with UMNO in the coalition,
fighting corruption is a mountain to climb for Anwar Ibrahim, if he were
to try. This is the biggest problem to overcome.
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