COMMENT | The only positive outcome for the rakyat who have been mere spectators to the unfolding political drama these couple of weeks are the hard lessons we can learn from it.

We are in this mess because of two reasons: one, because we trusted - lock stock and barrel - our politicians; and two, the democratic system is flawed and need to be fixed.

Let’s not forget, Pakatan Harapan in whom we trusted to save Malaysia from the kleptocrats fell from a coup within and not from any attacks of its political enemies from the outside. So what happened? Why did we have turn-coat politicians among Harapan's fold? Was Anwar Ibrahim fooled or did he know of the fox among the sheep?

The rakyat is not privy to these political games played by politicians because we were so overwhelmed by the wave to topple BN in 2018.

But recently, we were also taken aback when some Harapan leaders recently ‘welcomed back’ the same defectors whom they were condemning as pengkhianat (traitors) for the past year. In a rush to meet enough numbers for Anwar, these turn-coats suddenly became our saviour. Similar manoeuvres were also made by the Muhyiddin camp to consolidate support from the kleptocrats.

The rakyat has become sick of these never-ending games by...