The ‘1Malaysia' we hear about is the ‘1Malaysia' of Najib's design - not your ‘1Malaysia' or my ‘1Malaysia'. The casualties of this ‘1Malaysia initiative' are inevitably going to be Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan and any one else aligned behind this design.

In fact, Najib's design is so self-compelling that the outcome, in my opinion, is very predictable - a complete rout of Umno and all its conniving partners in a few years.

The people are demanding an end to treacherous rule , each in their own way (the Malay people want an end to corruption, the Chinese people want recognition as equals, the Indian people want a just and fairer life) and have spoken that they want this country ruled according to sound governing principles.

But Najib's ‘1Malaysia' has paradigm paralysis on this count - he just cannot or to put it another way, just won't see it, any other way. Najib continues with his intrigues. Najib is driving in the opposite direction.

At the very beginning of his watch, it was the coup in Perak. Then his decision not to allow by- elections - not in a literal sense but in an essential sense. Now he is trying a game of ‘if you cannot beat them, then split them' with the tacit support he has provided to the formation of a party by an opportunist, RS Thanenthirran.

Thanenthirran held the reins of Hindraf for a brief period by an unfortunate turn of events arising from the incarceration and exile of its leaders. Using that outing, he is now trying to carve out for himself a future with Najib.

What all of them fail to realise is that the people are very much more mature and in the know of things and are not easily misled - especially those in the urban areas. The people have expressed their desires in so many areas, in Bukit Gantang, in Bukit Selambau in Perak and in Penanti, just ‘nanti'.

Najib and his coterie are proceeding on the assumption that people have short memories - as Dr Mahathir Mohamad succinctly put it recently and that anything they do now will be forgotten by 2013.

Look at the keris-kissing event; it took place in 2005 but see what the electorate did in 2008 - short memories?

They continue to delude themselves that the people will forget and that by treachery alone they can continue to wield power. Such denial is only going to get them the inevitable - the boot, ‘1Malaysia' notwithstanding.

The people in the urban areas are becoming more savvy, try as you might to keep them fed with lies, but because of the divergence of interests between Najib's coterie and the people, the people have different paradigms and beliefs.

The people will always only believe what they want to believe - this is a basic truth. The expectations and consciousness of the people of their rights continue to expand to the displeasure and discomfort of the coterie.

Najib's ‘1Malaysia' does not recognise these trends in any substantial way. He is trying to sell old wine in a new bottle - that's all. Not recognising that the people have rejected the wine in the bottle altogether.

The latest in the series of Najib's ‘1Malaysia' intrigue is his approving in a few short weeks a party mooted by someone he should intrinsically consider an enemy.

He picks up into his following corrupt politicians, as he did in Perak, as he tried in Kedah as he is doing with this opportunist Thanethirran now. This is his ‘1Malaysia'. This is his paradigm paralysis.