COMMENT | Dr M's ideas continue to define this country
“An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.”
– Cobb (Inception)
COMMENT | I do not know if former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be “erased” from our political landscape.
However, I do know that his ideas will continue to define the direction of this country until we either lurch into a theocratic state or a group of political operatives coalesce and reject those ideas that serve as the first principles of the “ketuanan” state.
Non-Malays can point to the old maverick and claim that he is all that is wrong with the country but your average Malay (who in some cases has a vote that carries more weight), owes it all to the former prime minister.
Mahathir gave them everything. He taught them how to...
