“An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favouritism or ethnic justice.” 

- Michael Ignatieff, "The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience"

COMMENT | The latest spat between the MCA and DAP is instructive to the average non-Malay rakyat in so far as it demonstrates the “Big Con” of non-Malay power-sharing perpetuated by non-Malay power brokers in this country.

If you take stock of such things as winning or losing, the fact remains that the DAP and MCA both make valid points in that the MCA has lost its way and that the DAP is the Achilles heel of this unity government. But this is not the important point.

What is important for the non-Malay polity to understand, is that the MCA’s power-sharing model was a big failure in terms of acting as a moderating force for politics in this country, and that DAP’s Malaysian Malaysia is a con game that the party continues to narcotise the base with.

This last bit is made worse by the reality that the DAP is currently attempting to emulate the BN-era power-sharing model, which a significant percentage of the Malay voting public has chosen to reject.