Missing the point of spoil the vote campaign

MUCH has been said about the #undirosak campaign for the past weeks and a lot of bizarre allegations have been made against those who support it. Some have cast them as shallow minded, anti-democracy and should be investigated under the Sedition Act. But nothing was more bizarre than the one saying that #undirosak is somehow supported by the Government. The logic behind this was that the Government would benefit from it. But everyone is missing the one important point of the idea: change.

Cutting a long story short, most of the rakyat, especially the youth, are not prepared to have the fourth prime minister become the seventh prime minister and continuing his legacy under a different logo and party.

People want new candidates. People want a young candidate to become prime minister. Stop serving the same old menu for the next election, that’s all.

If we keep this tradition of having recycled and old politicians to lead us, we will never have the opportunity to change our political landscape, which is dominated by racial and religious themes to woo voters. It’s quite incongruous that even those who advocate new politics are providing the rakyat with a candidate who is the antithesis of progressiveness and moderation!

And how would the spoilt votes be transformed into votes for Barisan Nasional? Both sides will not get the votes (unfortunately). The only thing Pakatan Harapan needs to do is to convince the Barisan voters to vote for them. It is irresponsible and quite simplistic to blame those who spoil the votes for Pakatan’s defeat. The people have warned that change is required. The #undirosak movement is asking the Opposition to stop treating them with this foolish attitude of “Yes, we will change but let us win first and then we’ll talk about change”.

The #undirosak movement has shown how fragile our politicians are when people start to realise their real power of voting. Since they are reluctant to change, #undirosak is showing them how to change.

As for me, I’d rather go for a #Xundi movement because I am not going to spend a few hours lining up and then spoil my vote. My name obviously will fall under the category of registered voter who does not vote.

And the reason behind it? I am craving for change but neither party is willing to satisfy this at the moment. ZHARIF BADRUL Kuala Lumpur