Dyana-A Hottie On The Campaign Trail

Novice No More?

Voters in Teluk Intan may be slightly confused if they see a pretty young lass, wearing the DAP badge moving around on her hustle at the market places and shops in the Parliamentary constituency ofTeluk Intan.

Petite and pretty looking, she certainly will woo the hearts of young Middle-Malaysia.

As for the rest of the electorate, they usually fell into three discrete categories.

Assuming that they do not vote racially, which may be difficult in a rural-based demography, certainly uncertain in a suburban landscape and blatantly definitive in an urban area, let us see what are the chances for both candidates.

Let's Have a Fair Fight. No bullying, yeh?

Let us look at the doyen of politics-Dr. Mah.

He needs no introduction. A local boy, he has played his part in the earlier elections under BN until his loss in 2008 and 2013. He is a known quantity.

The people knows what he can do and what and why he cannot do. Voting him in will perhaps see some small village and urban projects being implemented. He may lend a helping ear but there is so little he can do given UMNO's stranglehold over the BN. Also Gerakan is a party which is in the throes of death.

Dyana on the other hand is a breath of fresh air. Her candidature representing the DAP is electrifying. She is one unknown quantity. She may be another pocket dynamite like Nurul Izzah or Marina Mahathir or even Ambiga.

The people have to choose on 31 May.

Poster Attraction for Dyana

My 5 sen analysis:

If the voters vote status quo as in 2013, then Dyana will slip in with a slight majority lower than her predecessor. This is because outstation voters will unlikely come back to cast their votes.

If the voters are fired up after all the BN inflation measures making the cost of living to rise unnecessarily, then expect more of BN's earlier voters to either vote for Dyana or not turn up for the election at all. Again, outstation voters will also not come back to vote for BN.

In the rural areas particularly the FELDA stations and oil palm plantations and the other remote agricultural backwaters, BN will most likely have the upper hand as development is required to bring these people up to economic speed.

Doing the Walk-about

The interesting category will be suburbia where the lower middle class resides. They no longer believe everything spewed by the mainstream media and are possibly suffering the worse of inflation in so many years. More of them in new housing schemes will out of gut feeling vote for Dyana.

As for the urban Chinese core and traditionally anti-government, is is quite definitely Dyana's turf.

Given the above projected scenario, Mah will theoretically win the votes in rural areas, at best; an uncertain support in suburbia and  will be the underdog in downtown Teluk Intan.

Dyana,on the other hand, will possibly trounced Mah generously in urban areas, beat him by a broad shoulder in thinking-feeling suburbia and may lose a little to Mah in the rural landscape.

A Tigress Roars!

On balance, everything being equal and with no late unnecessary hitches, I think Dyana will come in quite nicely though not superbly.

The Penang State Assembly Debacle

A Theory of Mutation of Nations

Mutation in Progress

This is a great read.

From the analysis of the Obama-McCain election, you can truly feel at home that many nations will go this way to their demise.

Read on:

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.

During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

• From bondage to spiritual faith;
• From spiritual faith to great courage;
• From courage to liberty;
• From liberty to abundance;
• From abundance to complacency;
• From complacency to apathy;
• From apathy to dependence;
• From dependence back into bondage."

The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2011

Building on this ................

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1 

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's — and they vote — then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

And tongue-in-cheek - Do you know any country that seems to be on this course?