COMMENT | If democratic politics is a pattern of creative responses to society's inertia and a small margin for change, then the path beckoning the DAP to initiate a break in the current stalemate in national politics is clear.

The present deadlock in national politics is compounded of Malay unease, as Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has put it, at Umno's not holding the reins of central power and general non-Malay discontent with the political status quo.

The upshot: A political logjam which somebody has got to break to allow economic rejuvenation and healthy political development to proceed in the country amidst a pandemic of worldwide proportions.

The DAP ought to initiate the break by doing something creative that will demonstrate quite convincingly its inventiveness in dealing with a deadweight in Malaysian politics.

This is the not quite rational Malay perception of the DAP as being anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-royal.

The DAP's Lim Guan Eng and Lim Kit Siang stir these anathemas in the Malay mind to the quick.

It would greatly help to break the logjam in Malaysian politics if the two stalwarts