Why Harapan urge the people to vote on party line and not the candidate?

While browsing through the internet events on PRU15. I come across a common theme, “选党不选人”. It means pick on party line and not the candidate.

Going through their ceramahs, I find that Harapan is great at discrediting their opponents, including bringing up age old faults of their opponent parties justifying corruption, betrayal and incompetence.

UMNO so far is labelled as a party of absolute corruption and that the party leaders are trying to use the election win to escape criminal conviction. They made it clear that UMNO was so scheming that they stole the governance of the country from Harapan, who surpassingly the rightful owner of this 5 years of governance.

MCA, their nemesis was labelled as the loyal lapdog of UMNO and only emerged recently for election. DAP went on to claimed that MCA was not there for the people when they needed help. further enforcing the belief that it was DAP alone who supported them in the time of needs.

Needless to say, Muhyiddin, Azmin Ali and their Bersatu are the traitors of Harapan, if not for their betrayal, Harapan would not have lost control of parliament.

Of course, I must also mention Mahathir who is labelled as the fox who lied to obtain control of Harapan and then refused to relinquish his role of prime minister for Anwar.

Oh! How can I miss out PAS who used to be an ally but now an extremist group trying to convert Malaysia into Afghanistan.

Harapan lead by Anwar are out to help Malaysia to clear all the evil, remove corruption and bring law and order to the country. It is "US" against "THEM" and a vote for Harapan is a vote for righteous while a vote for the other side is supporting the downfall of Malaysia because these people will hand the fate of Malaysia to people of corrupt nature.

The propaganda machine was in full force since day one marketing their ideology to the extent that the man on the street can recite the theme, turn a blind eye on who the candidates allocated to their constituencies and just choose the logo of Harapan.

This is all too familiar to me. I was at one point with regular travel to China and lately quite focus on the country's political changes due to my interest in Hong Kong. 

The China propaganda machine is always quick to deflect any faults blaming external influences for any mishaps. Too much rain causing flood? Must be USA weather changing machine. Protest in Hong Kong? Must be US infiltration inciting riots. all sorts of ridiculous excuses and accusation, sky the limit. 

They will even create stories on how they fought off foreign threats to them. There one very interesting story line which the online amateur reporters claim they were taking photos near a the seaside where Japan , Taiwan or Korea on the opposite end. A military vehicle drove behind them and told them that they are there to act as a barrier in case the enemy on the other side fire a missile over. These reporters declared how touch they are to the military personnel.

The thing is that these are recycled over and over again until I am sick of listening.

Back to Harapan, among all these betrayals, lies and deceits, I can't help but to note a common denominator, which is Harapan. If you connect all the strings, it all lead back to Harapan and no one else.

Anwar and his PKR for instance, was riddled with infighting since day one. The leaders within could not even wait until they are in full control before the distribution of power. The indecisiveness of Anwar himself not only fail to resolve the dispute, instead escalating it. 

One famous incident was the position of Selangor Mentri Besar which was then seated by Abdul Khalid Ibrahim. He was hardworking and managed the state well, but was unseated due to the greed of Azmin Ali whom at the time a strong component within PKR. He under the silence of Anwar forced Khalid to apporach BN for help and then in the end removed by the party.

DAP on the other hand, while claiming to be multi-racial, is ruled by an iron fist. They depend on the Chinese vote by continuously feeding propagandas of external threats and danger in order for the Chinese to vote for them. It is no wonder that we very seldom see their ceramah in full Malay, because they could not spin the same story to the Malay. 

With the collaboration between PKR and DAP however, they make it possible to divide and rule, PKR to convince the Malay community for support, while DAP on the Chinese.

Why then the theme of "pick on party line and not the candidate"? It is not because of them fearing the good credential of candidates from the other side. They are more scared the voters seeing their own candidates. 

While failing to secure power in parliament, they are still holding to many of the seats, some reaching 4th term, and if you look closer, most of them did nothing to service the people who voted for them. In fact, you will find a lot of frogs leaping from constituency-to-constituency after 1 or 2 terms. Lim Kit Siang for instance is a great frog, jumping all over Malaysia.

A good example is Nurul Izzah Anwar. My constituency Lembah Pantai voted for her and she was our member of parliament between 2008 till 2018. During this period, she has never appeared in our area at all. We however, found her going around the country making speeches as it that is the sole duty we have asked her to fulfill. When came 2018, her credit ran out and she lompat to Permatang Puah.

She was replaced by a Fahmi Fadzil, a professional actor who also disappeared after the last election only to reappear recently to ask for vote. However, based on what my father told me, Bangsar Baru is really quiet now as if nothing is happening.

You do not need to believe me, just search on their ceramahs, you will find that they are quick to blame everyone for their misfortunes, discredit others to leverage their position, they even spue the notion that they were not able to fulfill their pledge because they were only in office for 22 months before the scheming UMNO took it from them. For some reason however, they never mention what happened within the 22 months which they were in office, not a single word of apology.

The point here is, not only you need to pick based on the candidates, you need to scrutinize every single aspect of the candidate, or you will come to regret when of your choice.