Why Uncle Kit? Why DAP? Why?

I am sad. The winds of change have hit a snag. Honestly, I know where Uncle Kit is coming from. I know DAP has tirelessly defended the Constitution and the notion of secular state. It is hard for them to justify to the mainly Malaysian Chinese supporters why they are working together with PAS and let alone install a PAS Menteri Besar to govern over them. It would seem to backtrack from their stand made earlier.

Importantly, it would appear that DAP has backtracked from the idea of meritocracy when being the party with the largest representation among the opposition alliance, it is only right DAP should be allowed to lead the pack.

Yet, this is a unique situation DAP has never entered into before. It is about governing a group of people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, creed and religions. For as long as one can remember, DAP only loosely govern its own members. Yet here, DAP is asked to govern a nation. Hence, there will be minorities (including their currently unpopular political opponents), requiring care and support, which may hold dissenting views from DAP's. Hence, when DAP is given the option to work together with others who share the greater vision of creating a Malaysian Malaysia, yet have different ideology on how to achieve unity, should DAP reject it outright due to ideology difference?

Source: http://americanrevolution.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/disunity-on-display/

Prior to 8 March 2008, no one expect the outcome to be as drastic as the one presented in the night of 8 March 2008. The people, believing in a vision of lasting change where a better, unified, cooperative and understanding nation will emerge from the decadent ways of the past, have given their resounding yes by gambling their 5 years for an untested coalition to govern for them. Though not everyone is ready, those who delivered these votes did the unexpected. The rakyat is tired of race based politics, of segregation and rule. They are tired of feeling insecure and watching only their own backs to the exclusion of others. Deep down, everyone wants to have some measure of trust from which a more civil and friendlier society can be built upon. They want to trust the stranger on the street when he/she said yes means yes and a no means no. The rakyat is tired of being labelled by skin colour and dealt according to such stereotypical assumption.

There are much to be done to break the chain of distrust and fear and the least we need is jockeying for positions of power. Ultimately, the ones elected are heading those who willingly lay down their lives to serve the community. So when to serve is better than be served, can those who volunteer to serve put aside their difference and work together to serve well? Work together, let the results speak. There is little need to placate the few who distrust PAS come the 13th general election if PAS succeed in proving themselves to be far more moderate and understanding compared to BN.

We are a people made up of individuals with free wills and minds of our own. We are capable of being different on many things yet in one accord we want to live with one another in peace and harmony, accepting our differences as gifts, not curses. If we, the rakyat, have risen above racial and rhetoric politics, why can't our leaders, empowered by us, do the same? Must our hands be forced to do the unnecessary just so that the winds of change will continue to blow strongly?

No one is indispensable. If we must sacrifice the self righteous who forgot the real needs of the nation, then we must part ways. This will be painful because we are in one accord only until a few hours ago. But if we must, we must.