If in over 60 years UMNO has not been able to improve the grassroots Malays' economy and has wallowed in corruption, what can Khairy do?
Khairy is just another UMNO leader, nothing special The plight of the ordinary Malay is still at the stage of receiving RM200 in aid and getting one hundred ringgit a month to buy groceries at selected supermarkets Khairy Jamaluddin is once again at his political best in playing to the UMNO ultras by invoking the familiar narrative that only UMNO can safeguard Malay interests. Such a claim is both flawed and outdated. It may have resonated in the 1960s and 1970s, when many Malays were economically disadvantaged and politically insecure. However, Malaysia has changed dramatically over the past six decades. Political institutions have matured, the Malay middle class has expanded, and constitutional safeguards have become deeply entrenched. Ironically, as UMNO became increasingly dominant in both politics and government, power also became increasingly concentrated. That concentration of political power, coupled with abuses of power, patronage and corruption, ultimately turned many Malaysi...
