Don't worry too much about politics, we can do without it for a while

Today I just want to copy and paste something my good friend wrote. Too lazy to write myself.

By Shahrum Sayuthi

MALAYSIANS should not worry too much about the current political turmoil.

 

That’s  because we have to save our worries for bigger problems – the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic and social well being fallout.

 

The tussle over who should become prime minister and form the new government is by right a problem concerning the politicians and maybe to a certain extent the Rulers.

 

It is after all a problem created by them and should be solved by them. 

We, ordinary Malaysians are mere spectators, just like those at a football match.

 

We can cheer and jeer all we want, but what happens on the pitch is up to the players as well as the referee and linesmen.

 

As it is now, the farce that we are witnessing is more like a very poorly played football match.

 

The players are cheating and committing fouls at every chance they get and the match officials are struggling to do their job.

 

Worse, the match is still undecidedly boring even after extra time with no clear winner.

 

All that, while we the spectators at the stands have to endure a very heavy rain and hooligans among fans of both sides behaving annoyingly.

 

Yes, that is more or less how it is with the current Malaysian political scene.

 

It is best that we just ignore it and instead concentrate on how to endure the Covid-19 crisis.

 

We actually can manage it without the politicians, at least for quite a while until maybe after the pandemic is over.

 

The government machinery is, after all, still functioning and efforts to fight Covid-19 are still ongoing, thanks to our brave frontliners.

 

The vaccination programme, which should be the most crucial in our war against the coronavirus, is also going well.

 

Hopefully, we will meet the herd immunity target as scheduled before year end and then some semblance of normality will return.

 

As for now, we can do our part by observing the standard operating procedures of movement restrictions,and helping our frontliners as much as we could in curbing the pandemic.

 

There is no need for us to be too concerned about who will be the next prime minister and which side of the political divide will form the government.

 

The Yang diPertuan Agong should be allowed to take all the sweet time he wants to decide on the matter.

 

Whatever his decision, I do not think it would make much difference to us ordinary Malaysians.

 

It would be just another “backdoor government” as the politicians said about the previous one, and its policies would probably be of not much difference either.

 

This new government should not be allowed to be in power for too long anyway.

 

As soon as we Malaysians manage to overcome the pandemic, the mandate must be returned to us to vote for a government of our real choice.

 

Let the ongoing political comedy amidst our Covid-19 sufferings be the last time that we have to endure those selfish individuals who claim they should be our leader.

 

We must vote them all out of our consciousness the first chance we get at the next election, which hopefully will not be too long from now..

 

Until then, dear Malaysians, be safe and keep your spirit up.

  

Shahrum Sayuthi has been a journalist for 24 years of which 18 were with New Straits Times before quitting as its political editor in 2015 to join The Mole.