We are disenchanted with our current way of politics.

Any way you look at it, Malaysians are beginning to grow disenchanted with our current way of politics. There is a host of weaknesses in the country's political game. 

 By and large, many educated young people are staying away from main stay politics, which is perceived as race and crony based. This unfortunately leaves only the old politicians still in the game. 

Although times change and our people change, these old politicians do not. They do not know how.

Ultimately these old politicians will continue to use the tricks of their youth to continue remaining in power, and these are –resorting to populist tricks to win public support or to advance their own political motives.

Such "winner takes all" operational mode has given rise to pan- politicization and ethnicization at the expense of social justice, obscuring the real focus of our problems in so doing.

If our society remains cocooned in this retaliatory and assaultive mood, we will find ourselves forever dragged into the whirlpool of politics, unable to see the beautiful sky above us.

As a matter of fact, a political leader can come and go but a healthy and effective system forms the basis of sustained administration. Political struggles are not meant to protect the well-being of any individual but the rakyat and the nation as a whole.

As it is, our nation is slowly but surely hedging toward THEOCRATIC RULE.

THEOCRATIC RULE is a system of government by religious based humans claiming a divine knowledge to rule over you. At that point, you have no authority to determine your own way of life.

I have always been against religion getting involved in politics, regardless of the religious denomination, be this the Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Hindu (etc) organizations.

It's dangerous and unchallenge-able when clerics use (or more likely misuse) the name of Religion and Divinity to influence their political standing, policies and rulings.

Things can turn bad very fast if left unchecked.

How this happens eventually would be something like this-

First we allow politicians to use religion and religious based arguments to dominate our sphere of conversations.

Secondly, from these conversations, there will arise groups of men or associations that will want to DEFEND and PROTECT THEIR RELIGIOUS RIGHTS.

Third, these groups of people will evangelise larger groups of like-minded people. It is at this stage that the system will change in their politics and suddenly, most people will be brow beaten into following their official stance of defending and respecting the ‘will of God’. Eventually, they will demand the right to live by the laws of their own religion and everybody else has to respect their claim.

In other words, the state will become the ruling groups (or governments) domain, and everybody else should bloody damn well keep out of state affairs.

Isn't it troubling enough that we already have so many religious clerics politicizing their religion for political gains?  

To add more confusion the “others “that are not in the larger groupings will also eventually get fed up and start doing the same as the earlier groups.  That’s when we have total distrust and malice in society. We certainly don't need any more clerics of other religious denomination interfering in politics.

We urgently need a clear separation between State and Religion.

State secularism does NOT mean the prohibition of religious worship, but only that the State (and thus the government and all its institutions and agencies) does NOT bloody well get itself involved with religious matters, especially on issues that can impact on the individual's democratic and human rights. Religion under a secular state is a private matter for the individual.

In Summary, the 'religion’ should stay out of politics!

Under our Constitution, (Malaya had been, and subsequently) Malaysia is a secular state but which uniquely recognizes Islam as the official religion. What does this mean will be explained further on in this post by none other than former Lord President Salleh Abas (in a ruling he made 15 years ago) and again earlier this year by a three-judge panel of Malaysia’s second-highest court led by Justice Datuk Mohd Hishamudin Yunus.

But despite former Lord President Salleh Abas' ruling, this constitutional fact was thrown into confusion and ambiguity for 15 long years, and became a fertile ground for ambitious clerics to plant their unConstitutional seeds of intended domination, when former PM Dr Mahathir made his declaration on 29 September 2001 that Malaysia was an Islamic State, and as if that wasn't enough for his UMNO political agenda to out-flank PAS in the Heartland, made a further declaration the following year, on 17 June 2002, that Malaysia was not just an Islamic State but a fundamentalist Islamic State.

The two questionable and very ominous declarations came to be respectively (note, not 'respected') known as the 929 and 617 Declarations, both of which were adoringly supported (no, not by PAS but) by Dr Mahathir's kutus, MCA and Gerakan. 

MCA even creatively came up with a new disingenuous incredulous preposterous term, namely, 'secular Islamic state' to ameliorate the party's blind support for Dr Mahathir's unilateral declarations.

But alas, those declarations gave free reins to the UMNO Islamists to drive our multi-racial and multireligious nation in a caravan direction different to what what our founding fathers, Onn Jaffar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak and Tun Hussein Onn had determined and written into our Constitution.

Sad indeed the state of this fair nation today, the result of that political shenanigan.