Time to use brains to win voters – Umno Youth chief

Khairy Jamaluddin, the Umno Youth Chief said that the old ‘intimidating’ tactic adopted by the ruling party will no longer be effective and it will only drive the young voters away. Hence if Umno wants to get to the young voters, they will have to be smart because the voters today can tell ‘genuine service’ to rhetoric ones. Therefore, they have to change their age old tactics. He was speaking at the Umno Youth general assembly where he said “The party’s old tack of “using force” — lodging police reports, arresting and demonstrating against those who held different political beliefs — was an anathema to today’s Internet-savvy youths, who demanded open debate above all else. The current political sphere is no longer entirely about the struggle for power, but a competition of minds, a battle of ideas. Like it or not, those who challenge our political ideology must be defeated through the sharpness of our intellect and the superiority of our arguments, not by relying on executive power.”

He added that “We might be able to arrest one or two, but what of the hundreds or thousands of their supporters? In the end, disaster may befall us for in our obsession with winning the battle, we may just end up losing the war. It was critical for Umno to start this process of engagement with young voters — the majority of whom were fence-sitters — as they will account for 49 per cent of all votes in the next general election. What is the point of us trumpeting that young people are important assets and future leaders if their wish to involve themselves politics is denied and met with scorn? Umno Youth does not only wish to give adequate space for the best minds to contribute through politics, but more than that, we want to acknowledge and elevate this group who are most definitely looking to us for leadership.”



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So long circular democratic system is applied, corruption, giving gestures, misuse of govt machineries, etc is negligible. Only countries like China Republic, Libya, Brunei are free of these offence. Even Spore is no exception. What more USA & UK, the self-acclaimed champion of democracy. All ruling parties are financed and beholden to
Freemason/Jewish companies.