Failure To Change Will Annihilate MCA

One of life's greatest irony is that there are always sign to tell you whether you are on the right path or not.The only problem is whether one is prepared to grasp the tell tale sign and make the change.
Ong tee Keat's blog seeking an opinion poll whether the party should pull out of the Barisan National confirmed what has already been public knowledge that the chinese have enough of UMNO and B.N. According to the poll 1,908 (75.7 %) respondents wanted the party to pull out of the coalition whilst 612 said no.
Now that the survey has indicated the majority wishes of the chinese people, the question only remains what would the leadership in MCA decide to do?With four ministerial posts and 9 Deputy Ministers post at stake can the MCA leadership sacrifice their own positions and interest and for once look at the larger interest of the chinese people?Not an easy decision when one is comfortably ensconced in a Minister post with all the perks and privelges accorded to it.
The P.M , Najib is quite confident that MCA will not abandon the B.N ship because history has always shown that personal interest and positions have always remain paramount in the MCA leadership considerations.So its not easy to make the change when so much rewards and position is at stake.Past experience have also shown that MCA leaders have never paid any premium to the larger interest of the chinese community.As long as MCA leaders are adequately rewarded with title and position UMNO can always ride rough shod over MCA and chinese interest.
But this time the writing is on the wall. The demise of MCA, MIC, Gerakan and most if not all of the B.N component parties will be inevitable when the 13th General election takes place four years from now. Because of self interest, it is unlikely any of these leaders will change their allegiance to B.N or to UMNO.Even if they change now, there is no guarantee that that the people will embrace them immediately. 50 years of their loyalty to the B.N philosophy is unlikely to change overnite.More specifically would be the question of what is it for MCA for them to make the change.? MCA surely would not hope to make the change and cast away their loyalty to B.N without expecting anything in return.?
In fact the signs were already there in the march 8th 2008 election. All the 15 member of Parliament seats that MCA won were in areas with a malay majority.That means MCA members won not with chinese support but with malay support. If that is not a sign that the chinese have already abandoned MCA than I dont know what other sign you need to have.By the next election when malay support is given to PKR and PAS, MCA candidates will be totally left floundering and anihilated. That same logic applies to Gerakan and MIC candidates who will be looking for malay support in areas contested by their members.

The survey done in Ong Tee Keat's blog merely serves to confirm that the days MCA will continue to be part of the Govt in B.N will be numbered.