COMMENT | The people, not politicians, saved the country and we'll do it again

COMMENT | While the Pakatan Harapan political manoeuvrings have reached an impasse, do politicians care about what their supporters and the public think of their antics? Politics, a tarnished activity, still ought to be driven by what's good for the welfare of the people and not the selfish ambitions of politicians.

The betrayal of two-time Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed by two-timing political comrades elicits no pity. Instead, it begs the question of what he was brewing with his backstabbers in the first place.

What must upset many Harapan supporters and baffle Malaysia watchers is why it is crucial that one man, who has been in the country's top job not once but twice, and is the cause of their plight, thinks he should be given a third chance to helm the government at his advanced age.

For a political coalition that has taken the high ground and managed to oust the kleptocrats from the government after GE14, is winning power at all costs now their most important priority?

Whither integrity, moral principles, and other decent values many Malaysians uphold and want Harapan politicians to defend? How is a government formed from solicitation, inducement, and other questionable means, however legal, different from a treacherous backdoor one?

Whither the long-term future of a despoiled nation, riven by racism, and contaminated by corruption?

As if a political crisis was not bad enough, politics is now undermined by...