COMMENT | May we, voters, be fooled no more!

COMMENT I started off this piece working on this title: “Want to get rich quick? Easy, be a political frog.”

I quickly changed my mind as such a heading would be seen as encouraging people to take up a political career to enrich themselves.

While such political misbehaviour is no surprise at all, as we have witnessed in recent days and for the most part of the past three years, it is also an irresponsible proposition on my part.

Politics should, and must, remain an honourable, dignified profession. Sadly, most career politicians will turn rogue in no time and make it dirty and ugly.

We should know how to deal with such political “parasites and leeches” by now. If we are still naïve and ignorant, then we have to learn quickly. Voters have to be smart and be a step ahead of wayward politicians.

We, voters, must not be fooled again and again. We need to buck up and stop being taken for a ride repeatedly, elections after elections. This must halt immediately and it is up to us to act promptly and decisively.

I have just read about a Sarawak politician stating this: "You fool me once, shame on you. You fool me twice, shame on me.” Yeah! How many times do we, voters, have to be fooled before we finally wake up?

This is exactly what I intend to dive right in here. My message to voters is...