Does the ordinary rakyat care and are concern with who are the donors and their sources of funds.
Are their lives going to improve if the information are made public?
Would this help in reducing their rising costs of living?
Would corruption in this country comes to an immediate halt?
Even if the political party decides to be magnanimous and reveal the details and MACC and LHDN decides to act and investigate the background of all the donors and their sources of fund, what good does it do to the ordinary rakyat?
The ordinary rakyat is weary and in all honesty, no longer care.
The politicians can do whatever they want, create whatever mischief they want or treat tax payers funds as their ATM machine.
The ordinary rakyat does not need any reaffirmation.
They know and have witnessed that this country practices 2 set of rules in everything.
Including institutional double standards.
Mechanisms designed to protect the ruling class while regulating the general public.
One for the ordinary rakyat.
Another for the elites.
The elites control and used all the lever of powers in this country to manage and create parameters for the ordinary rakyat.
Whenever the ordinary rakyat steps out and or cross these parameters, the full force of those parameters set by the elites, will be used to come bearing down on them.
Those parameters do not apply to the elites.
If the elites commit the acts that will land the ordinary rakyat in the hot soup, instead of using the same parameters to judge them, the elites themselves will create new parameters and rules to adjuge themselves.
Arguments for transparency and oversight?
Huh….
These are presented solely to pull wools over the eyes of the public because in reality how trustworthy are the details presented is questionable.
Even if a list of names is published, it is difficult to verify if those listed are the actual sources of the money or merely fronts (proxies) masking the true, influential donors.
Compliance audits, typically verify if the paperwork matches the banking records, even if undertaken does not have the investigative depth to uncover hidden quid pro quo agreements or informal political favors made behind closed doors.
Does this mean the ordinary rakyat allow the corruption and questionable practices to continue unabated?
Yes.
Since when the ordinary rakyat have a say or are consulted in how many of these corruption and questionable practices are dealt with over the years?
None.
Even anti-corruption campaigns and institutional reforms are driven by elite negotiations and coalition dynamics, not with the participation of the ordinary rakyat.
Public consultation papers?
Because the agencies never public detailed explanations showing which public suggestions were accepted, which were rejected, and the rationale behind those decisions, there is a widespread perception that major policy directions or bills are already finalized by cabinet or ministry elites before the public consultation is even opened, rendering public input symbolic.
The only time the views of the ordinary rakyat are sought after is during election time.
And that only happens every 5 years.
Once the ordinary rakyat gave them their votes, both, the elites and ordinary rakyat are back to their lives.
The elites continued with their elite life.
And the ordinary rakyat back to their daily grind and dutifully pay their taxes to fill up the country’s coffers so that the elites can conjured ways on how to utilise the coffers for projects supposedly to benefit the tax payers.
Is knowing the details of who are those donors important to the public?
Nah…the elites and politicians can do whatever they want.
They don’t care or are bothered with concerns of the ordinary rakyat.
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