Vote for Change: A Personal Plea

"The choice is becoming increasing simple. Choose Barisan and you will see things spiral for the next four years. Or make the choice Malaysia has never made. We cannot use the fear of the unknown forever while the bed you sleep on slips into murky waters" from here.

Sitting in a foreign country only seems to make the need for change in my country seem more urgent. It pains me to feel that this is the legacy I create for my friends, my cousins, my family and makes me afraid for my future. Will I tell my children their lives suck because I thought I cannot do anything, and did not do anything? Is it really true? Am I so useless that I cannot even make my home safer or my life fairer?

There needs to be change, and there CAN be change

This is my personal call for change, to urge you to vote, and urge you to vote for change.

Your one vote makes a difference
There are thousands of us that think our one vote does not matter and sit at home today, and grumble about it tomorrow. If we all invested 10 minutes in our future and voted for change, your vote will make a difference.

You also have a voice, as I have realized. Urge your friends, your family, your neighbours to vote for change. If you can change just 3 people, then I would've changed a hundred people through you, and someone else changed ten thousand through us.

You are not alone. There are more people gearing for change this election than any election before, except perhaps the very first one. Elections are won and lost not by ten thousand votes but by a mere hundred sometimes, and ensure that those close wins give you pride for being part change and not shame for perpetuating oppression, corruption and inefficiency.

But the opposition sucks?
No they don't. If all they wanted was to make money from politics, they would join Barisan. They really want to make a change, have faith in their intentions.

It is a myth that great experience in politics is required to run our nation. But has your experience of politics in our nation been great? Maybe what we need is No experience of corruption, No experience of cronyism, No experience of lazy ineffective race-based abusive oppressive politics.

The current system is broken. A 91% majority has made the BN arrogant, corrupt and kings leading servants. It has allowed them to run a nation by threats and fear, that all will crumble if we do not have them. The truth is that they will crumble if we do not have them. All our current leaders have is from politics and power, and we must take our power back.

A New Government
The role of government is not to provide welfare, but remove the need for welfare. It is not to protect us from ourselves, but remove the causes of fear. It is not to make decisions for us in secret, but to give us the knowledge and ability to decide for ourselves.

What we have today is a poor imitation of a government. But it is our government. It is the government we have made, the house we have built.

Build a new government tomorrow. A new government that represents various interests, that is young and diverse. A new government that is free of old promises, old scandals, old notions of power and class. Build a government that you can be proud of.

This might not happen immediately after this elections, but it starts at this election. Governments are not born, they are made through your votes. Vote for change.

Most Sincerely and In Hope,
Logan

Please feel free to ask me anything, especially why I feel so strongly for change.
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