The local dailies obsession on the election

For about a fortnight the people of Malaysia is being bombarded by too much coverage on the General election in the print and electronic media. I can't help feeling nauseated whenever I flip over the pages of the morning newspapers. This is typical of a third world country, with the exception of the Presidential elections in the US, the mood of elections in developed countries like in the UK is very different. When I was in London way back in 1997, the election was hardly noticeable, and it was the turning point when the Labour Party won handsomely over the Conservative Party. But even then there was no jubilation or uproar as what we would normally expect here in Malaysia. What is it that made our situation different? Perhaps it's our obsession with politics as the only avenue to secure power which opens up many easy access to become rich without much sweat. This to me, is primitive thinking and surprisingly it afflicts modern technocrats who are standing for elections. If you are genuinely thinking of serving the people, politics is not the only avenue. In fact there are thousands if not millions who in their own way contribute more to the nation by working hard through honest and legitimate means to make the country prosper. It's high time that the people must be made to be aware that politics in the long run may be detrimental to our future, because in time the voting cohort will undergo a change and it would be too late to prevent the inevitable folly. What we do today is sowing the seeds of failure to ensure survival of the nation if politics become our obsession. The newspapers which are controlled by political interests must go and let the people be served the truth. As long the current trend is not checked, we shall regret very much later.