Dr Mahathir or Anwar?


At loggerheads: The choice doesn’t have to be between dr Mahathir (left) and anwar, why can’t it be both in a consensus-building form of democracy rather than the usual zero-sum game? — Filepics/The Star

I WAS a teenager the first time Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had their first major political conflict. I’m pushing 40 now, and it feels a little odd that we are in roughly the same place as we were 22 years ago.

It is becoming abundantly clear that if the question can only be shaped as “Dr Mahathir or Anwar?”, then the answer will always end up being “neither”.

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