COMMENT | The opposition does not need another rally. I know they want a rally, they want to make some noise but as the last Bersih rally demonstrated, you could be handed a loudspeaker but when you have nothing to say, you end up thinking you have accomplished something but ultimately whatever gained is superficial and just furthers Umno narratives about the opposition in this country.

The big question which has never been answered is why “people don't feel the 1MDB issue is related (to their lives).” Will holding roadshows provide clarity to these people? Would roadshows suddenly make them think independently and question the toxic eco-system of racial and political privilege that subsidises their community while shackling them to religion that teaches them that they are constantly under siege?

Some people have told me that unless the opposition manages to articulate the 1MDB issues in terms that “average” folks can understand, then there will never be a political awakening in the base that Umno relies on to maintain hegemony. I find this line of thinking hard to understand. The opposition in their rhetoric have more or less called the current Umno poohbah a “thief”, demonised his spouse as a Lady Macbeth figure who corrupts the party from within, and virtually controls online narratives that paint this country as a state in failing because billions of ringgit have been looted from public coffers.

One would think that with all this, the opposition would have made inroads with the so-called rural Malay demographic. These people are not all Luddites who only get their information from the state’s propaganda organs - which are failing by the way - and as portrayed by some opposition supporters as too “stupid” to know the truth when its right in front of them.